Architect Oscar Niemeyer receives Legion of Honour
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FILE: Brasilia, Brazil - Recent
1. Brasilia's state plaza designed by Oscar Niemeyer
2. Pan of Brasilia
3. Medium night shot of Planalto Palace
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 24 September, 2007
4. Close up of model drawing of new structure designed by Niemeyer
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
My main concern was to create architecture that was different, that was surprising. I wanted it to be different by my standards. If you look at most of the important art pieces, they are exciting and surprising and provoke those types of reactions for the observer.
FILE: Brasilia, Brazil - Recent
6. Pan of Itamaraty Palace
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 2006
7. Wide night shot of Sambadrome arch during carnival
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - July 2005
8. Pan of Modern Art Museum during Fashion Week
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
The most important things is that an architect must design what he likes, not what others would like him to do. That is my way.
FILE: Niteroi, Brazil - February 2006
10. Pan of Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi
11.Tilt up of Oscar Niemeyer's office building on Copacabana Beach
12. Medium of architect Oscar Niemeyer receiving French Ambassador Antoine Pouillieute in his office
13. Medium of Legion of Honour medal on cushion
14. Close up of medal
15. Close up of Niemeyer
16. Pouillieute presenting Niemeyer with medal
17. Cutaway of architecture models in Niemeyer's office
18. Pouillieute and Niemeyer toasting with champagne
19. Medium of Niemeyer walking towards chair
20. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
I am very pleased to be receiving this honour from France, a people from whom I have received so many favours, so much.
21. Medium of Niemeyer with Pouillieute and Pouillieute's wife
22. SOUNDBITE: (French) Antoine Pouillieute, French Ambassador to Brazil:
It is a personal homage by President Nicholas Sarkozy to present him with this honour on his one hundredth birthday. He has been a genius to the creative world.
FILE: New York, US - Recent
23. Wide of United Nations building
24. Tilt up of UN building
25. Zoom out from UN building
26. Mid of plaque of architects who designed UN building
27. Tilt down plaque to Niemeyer's name
28. Various of UN building
STORYLINE:
The French government honoured the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, with the L�gion d'Honneur medal, France's most prestigious award.
The honour was presented to Niemeyer at his Copacabana office by the French ambassador to Brazil, Antoine Pouillieute.
Niemeyer, who celebrates his one-hundredth birthday on Saturday, lived in exile in France in 1964 after he was forced out of Brazil due to his affiliations with the communist party.
After the decoration, Niemeyer told reporters he was pleased to receive the honour from people from whom I have received so many favours, so much.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907, Niemeyer graduated from Brazil's National School of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined a team that worked with Swiss-born Bauhaus giant Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health building.
In 1939, Niemeyer teamed up with Lucio Costa to design the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, for which he was named an honorary citizen of New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
However, Brasilia was the place where Niemeyer designed his most influential and well-known buildings.
From the ethereal curves of the government palace to the Alvorada presidential residence, to the white cup-and-dome of the two houses of Congress, and the chapel of concave beams that resembles a chalice, his stamp is everywhere in the city.
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Barry Bergdoll will present a short lecture on Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, arguing that the Bauhaus emigrés did not only have an impact at Harvard; they were types and models for the New World in general, with considerable attention from Latin America in particular. With responses by Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design.
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Brazil - Death of architect Oscar Niemayer at the age of 104
(5 Dec 2012)
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dies in hospital, aged 104
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 4 November 2010
1. Various of Brazil's soccer legend Pele, left, and Oscar Niemeyer, renowned Brazilian architect at a news conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 8 February 2012
2. Wide of Sambodrome designed by Niemeyer for Rio's famous carnival celebrations
3. Various of Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes and Niemeyer at Sambodrome
Brasilia, Brazil - 30 July 2012
4. Wide of the city of Brasilia designed by Niemeyer
STORYLINE:
On December 5th 2012 renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, whose trademark sensuous curves in reinforced concrete are synonymous with Brazilian architecture, died.
He was 104 years old.
Niemeyer was best known for designing Brazil's capital, Brasilia, on the country's empty central plains as a symbol of the nation's future.
Niemeyer was taken to hospital in Rio de Janeiro on November 2nd after a cold that he caught several weeks before led to dehydration, which compromised his kidneys.
A bout of bleeding in his digestive tract in November complicated his health.
In a statement released earlier on December 5th, Rio de Janeiro's Samaritano Hospital said Niemeyer was in a grave state and getting worse.
The hospital said a respiratory infection meant the architect continued to require a ventilator and was also sedated. Niemeyer was also suffering from kidney failure.
A spokeswoman for the Hospital Samaritano confirmed Niemeyer's passing but did not give a cause of death.
Niemeyer designed much of Brazil's futuristic capital of Brasilia as well as Rio's Sambadrome, where the city's annual carnival parade is held.
In works from Brasilia's crown-shaped cathedral to the undulating French Communist Party building in Paris, Niemeyer shunned the steel-box structures of many modernist architects, finding inspiration in nature's crescents and spirals.
His hallmarks include much of the United Nations complex in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Niteroi, which is perched like a flying saucer across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro.
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man, he wrote in his 1998 memoir 'The Curves of Time'.
What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.
Speaking to the Associated Press in 2007, Niemeyer said the important thing is for the architect to do what he likes to do, and not what others would like him to do. I follow this path.
His curves give sweep and grace to Brasilia, the city that opened up Brazil's vast interior in the 1960s and moved the nation's capital from coastal Rio.
Niemeyer designed most of the city's important buildings, while French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive airplane-like layout.
Niemeyer left his mark in the flowing concrete of the Cabinet ministries and the monumental dome of the national museum.
Living well past the century mark, Niemeyer's journey mirrored that of his beloved Brazil, and his restless modernism captured the developing country's sweeping ambitions.
With hundreds of his buildings dotting the landscape, arguably no other architect shared as tight a bond with a country as Niemeyer did with Brazil.
Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho was born on December 15, 1907, in Rio de Janeiro, and earned his architecture degree at Rio's School of Fine Arts.
Working in Costa's office in 1936, he helped design a Rio education ministry building that was a classic of functionalist horizontal and vertical lines.
Niemeyer teamed up again with Le Corbusier in 1947 to design much of the United Nations complex in New York.
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