ARCHITECT OF THE WEEK: Three mid-century modernist houses by Oscar Niemeyer
Santa Monica residence, California, USA (1963)
Residência Cavanelas, Brazil (1954)
Casa das Canoas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1952) – Niemeyer’s personal home.
The most enduring of the International Style architects, Oscar Niemeyer, died last week on the 5 December aged 104. Born in 1907, The Modern House takes a look at three of his mid-career and mid-century houses. Oscar Niemeyer was, in general, not renowned for his houses but his public and state buildings. With planner Lucio Costa, Niemeyer organised and designed the capital city Brasília in the 1950s and 1960s.
