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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Architect Le Corbusier came along with his concrete piers and the brise-soleil (i.e., sun break). Niemeyer took to Le Corbusier's modernism as readily as an earlier generation of Brazilians had taken to France's Beaux Arts styles of the Second Empire. Most notably, he helped design a new home for the Ministry of Education and Health. The result, which looks something like a beehive on stilts (see cut), is often described by contemporary architects as one of the world's most beautiful public buildings...
High in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, ten of the world's top architects, busy with clay and sketch pads, clustered last week in a grey-walled conference room. They were there to design a home for the U.N. The youngest of them, a 39-year-old Brazilian named Oscar Niemeyer, had no reason to apologize for his youth, because he had experience beyond his years. While war had immobilized most of the world's architects, Niemeyer and Brazil had been building...
From then on, Niemeyer was established in the hearts of his countrymen. At Pampulha, he designed a group of curving, glass-walled structures (yacht club, casino, restaurant). There he also built a Nissen-hut type of church so strange in design that the Roman Catholic arch bishop refused to consecrate it (TIME...
Then the National Association of Women Artists, which had given her the prize, got ready to exhibit The Lovers in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design. But after an Academy member huffed that it was "not a good moral influence," the 150-lb. Lovers was quietly removed from the show last week. Cried Mitzi: "A vulgar reason!" She had tried, she said, merely to convey the idea of a man and woman holding hands...
...Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...