{"id":2828,"date":"2012-12-06T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:03:15","slug":"brazilian-architect-oscar-niemeyer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/brazilian-architect-oscar-niemeyer-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"oscar<\/a><\/p>\n

Oscar Niemeyer, a patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil and who let its architectural contribute worldwide, died late yesterday. He was 104.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA revolutionary, the mentor of a new architecture, beautiful, logical, and, as he himself defined it, inventive.\u201d, described the president\u00a0<\/span>Dilma Rousseff.\u00a0His body will lie in state at the presidential palace.<\/p>\n

Between his achievements,he won the 1988 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the \u201cNobel Prize of Architecture\u201d for the Brasilia cathedral. Its \u201cCrown of Thorns\u201d cupola fills the church with light.<\/p>\n

\"brazilia<\/a><\/p>\n

Brazilia Catedral, by Oscar Niemeyer<\/em><\/p>\n

In his home city of Rio de Janeiro, Niemeyer\u2019s many projects include the \u201cSambadrome\u201d\u00a0stadium for Carnival parades. Perched across the bay from Rio is the \u201cflying saucer\u201d he designed for the Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n

\"sambodromo<\/a><\/p>\n

Sambodrome by Oscar Niemeyer\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The collection of government buildings in Brasilia, though, remain his most monumental andenduring achievement. Built from scratch in a wild and nearly uninhabited part of Brazil\u2019s remote central plateau in just four years, it opened in 1960.<\/p>\n

While the airplane-shaped city was planned and laid out by Niemeyer\u2019s friend Lucio Costa, Niemeyer designed nearly every important government building in the city.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Niemeyer, a patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil and who let its architectural contribute worldwide, died late yesterday. He was 104. \u201cA revolutionary, the mentor of a new architecture, beautiful, logical, and, as he himself defined it, inventive.\u201d, described the president\u00a0Dilma Rousseff.\u00a0His body will lie in state at the presidential palace. Between his achievements,he won the 1988 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the \u201cNobel Prize of Architecture\u201d for the Brasilia cathedral. Its \u201cCrown of Thorns\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[703,702,704,701,589],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}