Abstract
Oscar Niemeyer’s ibirapuera park in São Paulo built with one line
Highlights
Niemeyer's extraordinary ability to present his projects with one line comes from the inspiration of the landscape, the hills surrounding Copacabana Beach, and the female body
To better understand and appreciate Niemeyer’s thinking, his sketches and buildings based on these sketches, we should investigate his inspirations with women and female shapes, surroundings, mountains, the Copacabana beach, in more detail
The waves, the mountains appeared from the beginning of his works. As he was growing up, more and more women were appearing on sketches he made. He wrote in his 1988 memoirs The Curves of Time: “I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and not inflexible, created by man
Summary
Oscar Niemeyer was one of the most esteemed architects in the world who has created his own style of communication over the years. To better understand and appreciate Niemeyer’s thinking, his sketches and buildings based on these sketches, we should investigate his inspirations with women and female shapes, surroundings, mountains, the Copacabana beach, in more detail He has been drawing ever since he was young. Brasilia - his great ideological and political fight for beautiful buildings - is a huge complex of buildings that, even being perpendicular forms resulting from its rigid function, contain the curves of female lines from his drawings. Thanks to this, his works surprise to this day, being masterpieces for tens of years. The constructed recreational space has often been compared to Central Park in New York or Tokyo’s Ueno Park
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