The New Republic
Don’t believe it when you read that Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died this week only days before he would have turned 105, was the one who took the chill off modernist design with his flamboyantly curving, white thin-shell concrete buildings. That’s the sort of nonsense that gets peddled in obituaries and haigiographies, particularly when a charismatic charmer distorts the historic…
When I got the University the only word that I listened was Oscar Niemayer. I did not know him, I was just a kid that used to play as an architect to get thing around me and build something that was cozy…simply like that. That is why I love this writing from Sarah!