OSCAR NIEMEYER | Houses

A beautiful book of 22 residences illustrated with over one hundred photographs by Alan Weintraub. Many houses also include small plans and/or sketches. Approximately 150 color and 50 black + white illustrations. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear. Roughly 15 pages (30 by pagination) at the back of the book have very small, very slight crease where page block was bumped. Rest of pages and boards are clean and crisp. Near fine condition. “The work of Oscar Niemeyer added a new perspective to Modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian modernism were as legitimately Modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Now the last living Modern Master, Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe. Yet another significant aspect of his career has been virtually ignored: his residential designs. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases these unappreciated ar