happy birthday, mr. architect!
OK, so I hadn’t seen much of Oscar Niemeyer‘s stuff until today, but just check out his work in Brasília, Brazil’s capital city!
The man turns 100 today, and is still working – in BBC’s words, “sculpting curves from [steel-reinforced] concrete.” Damn.
ETA: BBC has a 30-minute radio piece on him here. The first minute or so is about something else, but don’t despair.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
He contributed Haifa’s university …