My first favorite architect, thanks to my 3rd Grade Social Studies textbook section on Brasilia, was Oscar Niemeyer (hey, it was the 1970s).
NIcolai Ourousoff, architecture critic for the ??Times?, has an article on the career the Brazilian architect.
In BrasÃlia, a city that rose out of a savanna in the span of four years, he created at least a half dozen architectural masterpieces — a mind-boggling accomplishment by today’s standards. Today Mr. Niemeyer is held up as one of Brazil’s greatest national treasures, and he seems as spry as ever.