Happy Birthday Oscar

Oscar Niemeyer in front of the Palazzo Mondadori. Photo via Mondadori.com

Today would have been Oscar Niemeyer's 105th birthday. The Pritzker-Prize winning, Brazilian master died last Thursday, December 6th, due to complications from a previous kidney condition.

Take a moment to look back on all our Niemeyer coverage, and remember the man who truly saw architecture as a higher calling. As Neimeyer once said: "The architect’s role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.”

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "Happy Birthday Oscar" 15 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/307705/happy-birthday-oscar> ISSN 0719-8884

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