Frases de Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho [1]​ fue un arquitecto brasileño.

Seguidor y gran promotor de las ideas de Le Corbusier, es considerado uno de los personajes más influyentes de la arquitectura moderna internacional. Fue pionero en la exploración de las posibilidades constructivas y plásticas del hormigón armado.

Dentro de sus principales proyectos arquitectónicos destaca la construcción de Brasilia como nueva capital de su país durante los años 1960. Niemeyer fue el principal responsable de algunos icónicos edificios públicos de la ciudad, como el Congreso Nacional de Brasil, la catedral de Brasilia, el palacio de Planalto y el palácio da Alvorada. Fue también uno de los principales responsables del equipo que diseñó la Sede de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.



No es el ángulo oblicuo que me atrae, ni la línea recta, dura, inflexible, creada por el hombre. Lo que me atrae es la curva libre y sensual, la curva que encuentro en las montañas de mi país, en el curso sinuoso de sus ríos, en las olas del mar, en el cuerpo de la mujer preferida. De curvas es hecho todo el universo, el universo curvo de Einstein.

✵ 15. diciembre 1907 – 5. diciembre 2012
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Oscar Niemeyer: Frases en inglés

“I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.”

Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13).

“I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.”

Quoted in "Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates 1988" http://www.pritzkerprize.com/bunnei.htm#...about%20Oscar%20Niemeyer, pritzkerprize.com (1988).

“It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve — the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.”

As quoted in Plans, Sections and Elevations : Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century (2004) by Richard Weston
Variant translations:
It is not the right angle that attracts me,
Nor the hard, inflexible straight line, man-made.
What attracts me are free and sensual curves.
The curves in my country’s mountains,
In the sinuous flow of its rivers,
In the beloved woman’s body.
As quoted in "Architect of Optimism" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db740a7a-e897-11db-b2c3-000b5df10621.html?nclick_check=1, Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13)
It is not the right angle that attracts me.
nor the straight line, tough, inflexible,
created by man.
what attracts me is the free, sensual curve.
the curve I find in the mountains of my country,
in the sinuous course of its rivers,
in the waves of the sea,
in the clouds of the sky,
in the body of the favourite woman.
Of curves is made all the universe.
As quoted on a Photo page on the Museum of Contemporary Art over Baia da Guanabara http://app.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/122423/?nextnav=favs&navuser=1

“Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.”

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3035080.ece, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).

“My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."”

Fuente: Quoted in Tracy Metz, "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong," Architectural Record (December 1997), p. 35.

“Humanity needs dreams to endure misery, even if just for an instant.”

Original: (pt) Quoted in Ciro Faro, De volta para a terra
Original: A humanidade precisa de sonhos para suportar a miséria, nem que seja por um instante.

“It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice.”

Original: (pt) É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.
Fuente: Quoted in Alberto Xavier, Depoimento de uma geração: arquitetura moderna brasileira

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