Oscar Niemeyer : The last modern architect
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- 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.
Man, Netflix should officially hire you for a docuseries like this. Brilliant work, the visuals, the music choice, Everything is so articulate 👌
Thank you so much
Get serious - Netflix likes things like the Goop Lab, Supersize Me and sensational crimes.
Bro I stopped paying for Netflix and switched to TH-cam premium. I have all the content I want here and all the music I want.
@@doudeau1988 I quit Netflix months ago when I saw what they were charging and how I watched virtually nothing. I have Roku, get Hulu from my granddaughter and will get Apple when the shows complete the season. Yet I know folks who have Disney, HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Prime, Acorn, etc. A small fortune..
I interviewed Oscar Niemeyer in his office in November 1989. He talked to me and my friends for two hours and allowed us to visit Das Canoas House. He was a very humble man and we also talked about politics and football (soccer).
I will cherish this memory forever.
Thats incredible ❤️
Whether you like modern architecture of not this mans designs never offend the eye. The forms are imaginative yet simplistic, a true genius.
Very good documentary and great presentation. Many thanks for that. What a talent. I love Oskar Niemeyer’s work
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such a beatiful tribute to one of the greatest of all time! As a brazilian architect, Oscar was, and still is for me, an endless source of inspiration, in architecture and in life! You did justice to his legacy! Congrats!
Thank you so much ❤️
Un architetto ed uomo straordinario, che ha attraversato con stile ed eleganza il XX secolo e tutte le sue brutture. Ottimo video!!!
What an incredible video!
Congratulations on your research. Even though I am a Brazilian architect and had this artist as inspiration, I learned a lot from your video!
If you want to make a video about the landscaper Roberto Burle Max one day, he complements Oscar's works to become more grandiose. He mastered the technique of the beauty of forest and concrete.
Yes,Burle Marx was another Great artist too!
First of all, I'd like to respect the fact that his passion for architecture was so strong that he decided to chase his dream at the age of 21 and went on to live a beautiful life producing beautiful architecture. This video really inspires me because I too hope to become one of the greats. I am at the age of 22 and this video has shown me that with the desire to chase my dreams, I too will achieve greatness. Not saying I'm going to leave school and start working😂, however, I will continue on my journey with a hunger to even cause as much of an uproar as Oscar caused.
You can do it , I’m rooting for you
A great documentary. Very well illustrated and narrated. In my country, Puerto Rico, there are many modernist-style buildings that resemble Neimayer's style and language. Mostly in San Juan and Ponce.
A brilliantly made documentary, with beautiful narration, wonderful photos and undisguised admiration for Niemeyer's talent and personality. I watched it with great pleasure 🧡 I saw some of his works live, e.g. Museum in Niteroi... Greetings from Warsaw, Poland.
I've long known of Niemeyer and familiar with his work, but I never really knew much of his life story. Thanks for creating such an enjoyable and informative video on him. You made me more interested about him than before.
I watch your videos in a train whenever I travel back home after whole week of studying architecture. Tired, sometimes flustrated with too many thoughts in my head. I always end up being so inspired by your work and the great architects you present. The music, the quotes, the fotos and story telling ... Perfect. Just perfect content. Congratulations and greetings from Poland!
Thank you so much. This means a lot ❤️
A wonderful tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest visionaries. Growing up in South Africa in the 70s and 80s, I was always awestruck by some of the buildings I saw. I later realised that they were part of a global movement that was arguably spearheaded by none other than Oscar Niemeyer. The missed utopian social ideals of modernist architecture are in my opion a result of political misalignment as opposed to what detractors might term as flawed philosophy.
Thanks, Father of modern architect. and thanks blessedArch
My mind burned thinking: "what is he doing at the age of 22?, what achievements has he achieved at this age?, how is he so consistently studying hard in this industry?, how does he divide his time between personal matters and architecture?". From these questions I want to correlate my life at the age of 22 with his life for 22 years. So, I know that it will take decades to achieve the achievements mentioned by native speakers. so I can find out my current abilities and his habits at that time. So I can conclude that I need to study, work hard and allocate time to reach this point. 😊😊
What a decumentry to be honest.
Fair play blessed arch.
Thank you
Fui a Brasilia hace unos años, como arquitecto me parecio un lugar increible, un aplauso p este genio !
As a Brazilian I would like to thank you for the best documentary ever
on Oscar Neimeyer, due to politics, religion, the military and all the conservative forces, Neimeyer has not gotten the recognition he deserves...
My favorite architect, a great socialist and and a national hero! Congratulations from Brazil, great video!
This is really excellent! Very good documentary, well produced and edited.
Very nice! I was born and live in Brasília. With the short time you separated to talk about it you were able to expose clearly not only the good sides of the city but also the things that went wrong. Awesome video! Greetings from Brasil.
I am glad I was able to do it justice, thank you so much
Que memorial estupendo! Parabéns pela excelente produção. Eu nasci em 1999 e minha geração conheceu muito pouco da vida de Niemeyer, que para nós brasileiros continua sendo um ícone, mas um tanto controverso. Hoje suas obras não são tão celebradas, estando em voga o neoecletismo da arquitetura contemporânea e há até mesmo aqueles que defendem o retorno do rigor clássico da academia pré-moderna, alegando falta de "alma" nos palácio projetados por Niemeyer. Confesso que não tenho muito apresso pelo modernismo, mas os palácio pensados por ele são inegavelmente surpreendentes, como monumentos funcionais. Os palácios da Alvorada e Itamaraty, para mim, são o ápice de sua atuação em Brasília. Agora, sobre as residências unifamiliares, elas marcaram muito a época e hoje estão um tanto defasadas (das poucas que sobraram, creio que há apenas quatro no Brasil, das quais apenas uma está no mercado imobiliário e não se tornou um museu). Apesar disso, o legado dele é imenso para nossa arquitetura, através dos cobogós, espelhos d'água e curva e contra curva do concreto armado. Ainda temos bons arquitetos, mas por enquanto não surgiram outras obras com um ar "futurista" e até mesmo de real "atemporalidade" que seus palácios e museus imprimem até os dias de hoje.
Well done, mate! Keep going with your materials.
Nicely done buddy!
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Though I am now curious about the painting behind Niemeyer in the frame at 35:10.
Looks brilliant and maybe one of the inspirations of the mound-like elements he built.
I am not completely sure but It could be. i mean Oscar did use to say Form follows Feminine.
Awe inspiring. Thank you so much for putting this together.
This was amazing
Really interesting and informative. Well presented. Appreciated, thanks.
Thank you. Glad you liked it 😀
This was so awesome. Thank you.
Beautifully done!
Thank you very much!
A Story I didn't knew I Much needed.
Thnx
such a great production. Thank you :)
Thank you so much
This documentary is marvelous, the best one about him. I love this man's work. The style, the drawings, how he represented my nation and our unique beauty. I am brazilian, and I see his buildings in the city I was born in, Belo Horizonte, and the city I grew up in, Diamantina. Great video!
Great video and analysis/biography/ assessment/review ❤
Thanks for this! Very well done. His work is majestic, timeless, inspired, hard to find work at this level today
Great presentation. Many thanks
Thank you so much. Glad you liked it :D
Well made film! Thank you, I enjoyed this very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
great presentation
Loved this documentary it was very educational and interesting. Thank you
Excellent presentation of an amazing Designer !!!
This was awesome! Really enjoyed watching it. 🤩 Thanks for putting this together.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Gran documental, felicitaciones
Loved 🤩 it
Thank you.
Very well done. Applause for the sheer amount of work.
Thank you so much
Awesome!
Bravo!!!😊
Well done. Thanks!
Thank you. Glad you liked it :D
bro keep these videos coming your good at what you do this is now the only way i can learn arch theory
A very great documentary keep it up
Thank you ❤️
amazing docu!
Thank you ❤️
I thought the video was very well done, very well narrated and created a good atmosphere, to talk about Niemeyer. (I studied his work a lot and visited several of his creations, I also read and bought Modulo Magazine, which one could find in Buenos Aires, SCA library, and some other Books written by the same. A great Man. Greetings, Thank you!
Thank you, I am glad you liked it
Creative people think differently have ideas we cannot imagine. 🤔
I love this. Pls don't stop making these
More coming very soon
Adorei esse video. Parabéns !
Congratulationss!!!! AMAZINGGG WORK
Thank you so much 😀
Gracias, muy interesante y agradecido
Wspaniały film i wspaniały bohater!
this docu is incredible!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent job done
Thank you
Delightful! :)
I wish these documentaries existed during my college days... my perspective towards the Architect and Architecture would have been completely different.
Beautifully told history of Oscar Niemeyer. I visited Brasilia first time in 1974. Back then the city was in its teens of existence. All the buildings designed by Niemeyer still gleaming and in Brazil, the modern architecture was on its height. The city itself wasn’t teaming with life. Most people that lived in the “Super Quadras”, the planned super blocks, didn’t necessarily enjoyed to live in them. Like many large urban planned projects, the designing of buildings and infrastructure didn’t take in consideration how actually humans interact de facto with it. “Brasilia urban master plan looks beautiful from the air but it wasn’t built for human scale”. That was a popular saying from that time. The “cidades satélites” or satelite cities around Brasilia where the majority of workforce that built Brasilia were housed and later became permanent settlement of those that decided to stay after the capital was done. These were basically non planned cities and had severe lack of infrastructure. They were basically “favelas”.
It took some time for Brasilia become a place where the majority of its inhabitants enjoy living there. Ironically, when city planners started dropping what was planned from original urban master plan and let it grow in an organic manner, people started enjoy there.
Brasilia wasn’t the first planned city in Brazil. Belo Horizonte, the biggest city in the state of Minas Gerais where once president Juscelino Kubitscheck was the governor and Curitiba in the South Eastern region were also planned cities. But perhaps because their implementation was more about of organizing the streets and roads than determining separation of zoning for government administration, commercial and residential, these cities grew in more organic way and they residents didn’t face the same problems of first residents of Brasilia.
Many of built projects of Niemeyer may face preservation challenges since the oldest ones are more than 70 years now. I remember that the Niemeyer’s complex o Pampulha as one of them. So, it is buildings at Ibiraquera Park.
I do agree that much of his work in the 1980’s at least in Brazil didn’t live to standards of work that he did previous decades.
I do like a lot of his work of later years. The museum in Niterói is one of my favorite projects.
Just prior to his death a Brazilian TV channel made a long interview with Niemeyer. I hope you had chance to see it.
Thanks for posting this video.
Thanks
Thank you for bringing such a wast life of Oscar Sir to us. Being an architecture student i always seek for your videos when i had nothing to do. I would like to meet you in person once. Thank you once again
Documentário genial!!!
You sir are the best documentary writer I’ve seen in a long time. And you have a perfect narration voice that is very approachable. I personally don’t even like modernist architecture that much, but some of Oscar buildings are sublime. It may be precisely because he wasn’t afraid of beauty like the others that came before him.
Thank you so much ❤️
Very well done! I've subscribed...
Magnificent!
Great video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
If you have ever been to Brasilia, you might understand why B.razil was called “the country of the future”.
It's a masterpiece emboldening Brazilian aspirations.
Ch-3 intro music 👌
Clean production good music selection
Thank you so much
Nice
Love this documentary ❤ and @prabhu said it correctly
inspiring documentary
When will your architecture graphics and rhino course be made available again ?....its not available on the website
Well Done! Great Narrative!
Thank you
Very good video.
Only one correction: Oscar didn’t give up architecture school. He graduated properly. After graduation, he worked drawing for other architects at home (at night) while he worked at Lúcio Costa’s office without salary. That was the time he took part at the 1936 project with Corbusier.
It feels so good coming back to modern contemporary architecture, when you see prof. James steven Curl, hating on „modernism“ in general because of lack of „ornament and human scale“. Architecture happens not on surfaces, but in between of them. Thank you for the documentary.
Some Respect 🎉
...awesomeness 🥸🥸
só faltou um foco no copam, no mais excelente vídeo
I love his Bologna product and Hot Dogs. So cool.
Nice video!! hello from brazil!!!
Thank you so much .
a great video..Do Mies van der Rohe...lol
My Brazilian relatives have a house and a set of stables designed by Oscar. :)
Gropius’s comment about the mass production is a bit funny lol. Considering the context that Oscar’s work is never the same. He is talking Bauhaus to the wrong guy lol
Amazing video with incredible insights to what socialism in architecture can do and how modernism has influenced it. It creates interesting possibilities for the individuals architectural thought process and even more theoretical conversations to be had.
Thank you and yes, a lot of the architecture of the 20th century was linked with various social and political ideologies and it is interesting to see and talk about how these issues trickle down into design thinking.
Very good Documentary on modern architect with best explantion through storytelling that too in parts. Do look on 12:28-12:30 time frame for a glitch of frame otherwise video is truly infomative
Actually because that shot is from google earth, the camera while rotating just entered one of the buildings for a frame, I should have correct the path tho in the final render, will take care of it in the future. And I am glad you liked the video.
It's such a beautiful documentary. Your voice was the cherry on the cake. Amazing! Keep making more. Kept me on my toes all through the length of the video.
I shot a documentary for Discovery Channel about him and I had the privilege to stay by his side for 2 months. One interesting fact that most people don't know, he designed a house for his personal chauffeur (driver) in a Favela in Rio.
That is so amazing. Thank you for sharing that. Is that documentary available to watch somewhere?
@@blessedarch look for "Oscar Niemeyer, an Architect Committed to his Century" directed by Marc-Wajnberg. Unfortunetely, we did not shoot his driver's project in the slum.
Congratulation. I was surprised, you know much more about the life of this master of architecture than many Brazilians, unfortunately.
Correção.: em 1964 os militares NÃO depuseram o Presidente . Jango abandonou o cargo e fugiu para o sul. O cargo foi considerado vago pelo Congresso. E na foto deste vídeo aparece Jânio como presidente na época. Mas, o presidente era Jango.
Total badass
A beautifully crafted film which, like Oscar's work, inadvertently illustrates the bleak hypocrisy of collectivist ideologies.
"Modernism by this time was falling out of favor with the architectural establishment. Brasilia soon became a symbol of Modernism's failure to deliver on its utopian promises." On the contrary, Modernism (as a stylistic, industrial-age movement) made no promises, and failed no one. Its ending was the deliberate result of an academic assault on beauty as a relevant human value. Modernism itself had been held captive and made to serve, symbolically, the utopian delusions of authoritarian collectivists, who never fail to deliver misery, destruction and broken promises. Brasilia represents a failure, only because the contrast of Oscar's Modernism in that place of poverty so perfectly betrays the desperate contradiction and hypocrisy inherent in such failed social doctrines.
His was a long and accomplished life. If Oscar had lived to see through these fatal contradictions, his name would be remembered for more than belonging to a great architect with an asterisk attached. His love of beauty, as an essential human virtue, could have influenced more people in more places, and our inevitable postmodern sociopathy might have at least been postponed. He was that good.
Any relation to Doug Neidemeyer?
Brilliant doc x
Please do bjarke ingels
I actually created one on him long back, you should find it on my channel.
Lately I’ve got interested in Modernism, specially Le corbusier and Louis Kahn’s work, after watching this documentary I couldn’t ignored Niemeyer’s work. Great work and inspiration for young architects;also I want to thank you for your great work with this documentary
Thank you :D
The problem with modern architecture is that only a very few rich people with a sense of aesthetics ( even more scarce among them ) can contract an architect as Niemeyer to project their houses . Also it requires buildings materials that are not sustainable at all.
From 1920 / 30 onwards, the cities got hundreds of millions of buildings made out of concrete/iron . Any craftsmanship.
All resembles boxes , mass production buildings . They are without any grace to say the least.
Compare photos of any cities around the world - before and now - between 1900 and 2000
Nice to look at from afar, lousy to live in
Agora ele está prestando contas a Deus por ter ajudado a propagar os horrores que o comunismo carrega consigo. A Deus! Em quem ele não acreditava. Nada como um dia após o outro.
Verdade seja dita: como arquiteto, foi mesmo genial , um orgulho para o Brasil.