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{{Infobox Person
|image       = Oscar Niemeyer, Pic, 9 - edit.jpg
|imagesize   = 150px
|caption     = Oscar Niemeyer in 1977
|name        = Oscar Niemeyer
|birth_name   = Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho
|nationality = Brazilian
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1907|12|15}}<ref name=Yahoo/>
|birth_place = [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]<ref name=Yahoo/>
|death_date  = {{death date and age|2012|12|5|1907|12|15}}<ref name="G1">{{cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2012/12/morre-no-rio-o-arquiteto-oscar-niemeyer.html|title=Dies on Rio the Archited Oscar Niemeyer|accessdate=2012-12-05}}</ref>
|death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<ref name=G1/>
|}}
'''Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/oscar-niemeyer-designer-of-un-building-dies-at-104.html|title=Oscar Niemeyer, Designer of UN Building, Dies at 104 |publisher=Bloomberg.com|accessdate=12 December 2013|date=5 December 2012}}</ref> (December 15, 1907<ref name=Yahoo/> {{ndash}} December 5, 2012)<ref name=G1/> was a [[Brazil]]ian [[architect]] who is thought to be an important name in worldwide modern [[architecture]]. He was a pioneer in the idea of using [[reinforced concrete]] for buildings.

Buildings made by Niemeyer often have a lot of empty space, making odd patterns. The biggest work he made was the plan for the city of [[Brasília]].

Politically, Niemeyer was a [[communist]],<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9726481/Oscar-Niemeyer.html Telegraph obituary]</ref> which sometimes had a bad effect for him: When the [[military dictatorship]] of Brazil happened in 1964, Niemeyer was forced into [[exile]] in [[Paris]].<ref name="Yahoo">{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091215/en_afp/brazilarchitectureniemeyer;_ylt=ArGdUdn3xJLjprPEv6hzAI4EtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTMyaHExYXRoBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MTIxNS9icmF6aWxhcmNoaXRlY3R1cmVuaWVtZXllcgRwb3MDMzkEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDYnJhemlsMzlzMTAy|title=Brazil's 102-year-old architect spends 'crap' birthday|accessdate=2009-12-15}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Fidel Castro]] once said  "Niemeyer and I are the last Communists of this planet."

In 1988, Niemeyer won the [[Pritzker Architecture Prize|Pritzker Prize]].<ref>Pritzker Architecture Prize, [http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1988  "Oscar Niemeyer, 1988 Laureate"]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; retrieved 2013-3-27.</ref>

In 2012, he died of cardiac arrest due to a [[respiratory tract infection]].<ref>[http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/364812/Oscar-Niemeyer.-Born-December-15%2C-1907.-Died-December-5%2C-2012,-Aged-104/ Express obituary]{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== References ==
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== Other websites ==
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* [http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1972 May 2006 Interview with Niemeyer, age 98, in Metropolis Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821004509/http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1972 |date=2006-08-21 }}
* [http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Niemeyer/legend_modernism/ Oscar Niemeyer, A Legend of Modernism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208173001/http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Niemeyer/legend_modernism/ |date=2004-12-08 }}, a book
* [http://www.infobrasilia.com.br/bsb_h3i.htm#Oscar%20Niemeyer Niemeyer in Brasília history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219151522/http://www.infobrasilia.com.br/bsb_h3i.htm#Oscar%20Niemeyer |date=2007-12-19 }}
* Images of [http://www.fredcamper.com/A/Accretions/AC006/index.html The Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi], [http://www.fredcamper.com/A/Accretions/AC004/index.html Cathedral of Brasília], and [http://www.fredcamper.com/A/Accretions/AC003/index.html Memorial dos Povos Indigenas (Memorial for the Indigenous People)]

{{Pritzker Prize laureates}}

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[[Category:1907 births]]
[[Category:2012 deaths]]
[[Category:Brazilian architects]]
[[Category:Brazilian centenarians]]
[[Category:Communists]]
[[Category:Deaths from respiratory tract infection]]
[[Category:Deaths from cardiac arrest]]
[[Category:People from Rio de Janeiro]]
[[Category:Pritzker Architecture Prize winners]]


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