Oscar Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern ... the Communist Party headquarters in Paris and the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Brasilia. He won the 1988 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered ...
On 21 April 1960 President Juscelino Kubitschek led the inauguration ceremony for Brazil's purpose-built capital Brasilia - replacing ... were designed by Oscar Niemeyer, one of the most ...
The modern master was known for his creation of Brasilia, a new capital for Brazil carved out of the jungle in the 1950s. Pritzker Prize winner Oscar Niemeyer, an international icon of world ...