Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday, December 5 at 104, was one of ...

(AP) Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil’s sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains as a symbol of the nation’s future, died on ...

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect was known for some of the world's most famous modernist buildings, including Brasilia's crown-shaped... Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed Brazil's capital and ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of mourners lined up in the vast open plaza at the heart of Brasilia, Brazil’s modernist capital, to honor internationally renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer during a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian hospital says 104-year-old architect Oscar Niemeyer is in a grave state and getting worse. Rio de Janeiro’s Samaritano Hospital says in a Wednesday statement that a ...

Against a colonial past dominated politically by large agricultural producers and sustained by enslaved labor, the early 20th century in Brazil was marked by a certain uncertainty in the political, ...

LONDON — Oscar Niemeyer, widely considered one of the world's greatest living architects, will design this year's pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park. The temporary pavilion will ...

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Groundbreaking architect Oscar Niemeyer died yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 104 years old, and just a week shy of 105. Niemeyer was essential to the reshaping of Brazil's identity. He was a ...