OSCAR NIEMEYER | Buildings

Let the works of Oscar Niemeyer warm up your senses through this sumptuous photographic tribute.  This the most thorough and vivid references for Niemeyer's sinuous and voluptuous civic buildings.  Over one hundred new photographs by Alan Weintraub document 62 public and institutional Niemeyer projects completed from 1940 to 2006. The dust jacket has very minimal shelf wear. Front lower corner of book is slightly bumped resulting in very faint waviness to some pages and small shallow crease to corner of front board. Rest of book is clean and crisp and like-new. Very good ++ to near fine condition. "At age 100, Oscar Niemeyer is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light—the last living Modern master. Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe—daringly conceptual works that challenged twentieth-century orthodoxy about Modernism, materials, and structure. This comprehensive book, a companion to Rizzoli’