Our critic salutes Oscar Niemeyer, the visionary Brazilian architect who died last week, aged 104 Oscar Niemeyer was brilliant, energetic, ruthless, by all accounts charming – and extraordinarily long-lived. He died last week aged 104 , a bridge across time to the now-historic modern movement in architecture. He was the master of the curve, the architect who could command tonnes of concrete and ...
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Oscar Niemeyer: an appreciation
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