How do you achieve beauty in architecture? How do you create forms that feel weightless? How does one architect define and shape the architectural identity of a country? The answers to these questions lie in knowing the life of Oscar Neimeyer. Hailed by many as one of the greatest modern architects, this man’s life is as full of ups and downs as the forms he created. This is a man who got to bring to life what very few architects in the world ever got a chance to do, and he was made to pay a huge price for it. The story of Oscar Neimeyer is filled with inspiration, with politics, with philiosphy with self introspection, but most importantly with beautiful architecture. This is the story of the last modern architect of the 20th century, this is the story of Oscar Neimeyer.

00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - Chapter 1
05:33 - Chapter 2
09:56 - Chapter 3
13:48 - Chapter 4
19:32 - Chapter 5
26:00 - Chapter 6
29:43 - Chapter 7

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Media Used :
Mondadori Headquaters by Davide Galli
Oscar Neimeyer Image via Gestalten
Brasilia Cathedral image via Homestratosphere
Cultural Center by Leonardo Finotti
Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art image via the independent
Brazilian National Congress Palace via Google Arts & Craft
Palácio do Itamaraty by Gonzalo Viramonte
Oscar Niemeyer image Sergio del Grande by Mondadori
Brasilia construction Marcel Gautherot
Oscar early images via Oscarniemeyer.org
Lúcio Costa, with the politician Negrão de Lima Courtesy of the Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo.
Luico Costa image via Acervo Luico Costa/ Casa de archquitectura
Ministry of Health & Education © Flickr Luis Saguar. Used under Creative Commons
Le Corbusier Image by Michel Sima / RDA / Getty Images
Le Corbusier with one of his sculptures at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris, November 17, 1953. Photo: STF/AFP/Getty
Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim. Acervo Lucio Costa
Pampulha Ensemble image by Marcilio Gazzinelli
Igreja de São Francisco de Assis, Pampulha (Brazil) - via Wikimedia Commons
Pampulha art museum By Rafael Lemieszek Pinheiro - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
Oscar Niemeyer - Art Museum of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte 1956. Via Pedro Kok.
Brazil Builds MOMA via MOMA
Conjunto JK ou Edifício JK, em Belo Horizonte. Vista diurna dos blocos B e A By EditorFFWD CC BY-SA 4.0
Montreal building by Nelson Kon
Das Canoas house via Demian Jacob for Open House Magazine & Nicolai Drei & Matthieu Salvaing & Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Walter Gropius Imagno/Hulton Archive Collection/Getty Images & Corbis
Max Bill By Fotograf: Vogt, Marcel - ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
Edifício Califórnia (1955) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer. Photo by Nelson Kon.
Oscar Niemeyer Haus in Berlin captured by Pedro Vannucchi
museu de arte contemporânea By Larissa valerio - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
Brasilia construction photographs by Marcel Gautherot
Brasilia Images Filipe Frazao / Shutterstock.com, Flickr User may_inthesky , Image Limogi, Image flickr user agenciasenado, gary yim / Shutterstock.com, flickr user agenciasenado
Brasilia Residential Images René Burri
Ministry of Justice Marcel Gautherot
Palace Church Kurt Severin
The Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia. The National Congress complex, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, can be seen in the distance in the center. Photo: Vesna Petrovic.
Brasilia Street By Renato Araujo/ABr - CC BY 3.0 br,
Haifa By Uria Ashkenazy - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5,
International Fairgrounds of Tripoli / Oscar Niemeyer. by Anthony Saroufim
Communist Headquaters Photos: Leonardo Finotti, The Tale of Tomorrow, Michel Moch
University of Constantine Michel Moch
La Coupole D’Alger Arena Photo by Jason Oddy
JK Memorial By Cayambe - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Latin America Memorial Image Courtesy of Wikimedia and Monica Evelyn da Silva.
Praça da Apoteose By Jorge mello ej - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
Oscar Niemeyer sketching Paulo Fridman / Getty Images
Niteroi Museum inside Leonardo Fenotti
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 designed by Oscar Niemeyer, Serpentine Gallery, London (20 June – 14 September 2003) Photograph © 2003 Sylvain Deleu
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012). Photo via by Kamy.