Main entry:

Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012.

Title & Author:

As igrejas de Oscar Niemeyer.

Publication:

Rio de Janeiro : Nosso Caminho Editora, 2011.

Description:

52 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Mudando de assunto = Mudando de asunto / Oscar Niemeyer -- Igreja de Pampulha -- Catedral de Brasilia -- Catedral Militar -- Capela Alvorada -- Igreja Ortodoxa -- Capela Nossa Senhora de Fatima -- Mesquita de Argel -- Capela Sao José Operario -- Catedral Batista -- Catedral Católica Caminho Niemeyer -- Capela Roberto Marinho -- Catedral de Belo Horizonte -- Capela Cesgranrio -- Igreja Itaipava - Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia.
Text in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Summary:

"The Churches of Oscar Niemeyer" is an illustrated catalogue with plans, drawings and color photographs of 16 churches and chapels designed by internationally acclaimed ultra-modern architect Oscar Niemeyer. A radical communist since his younger days, Niemeyer explains that there is no contradiction between his Stalinist atheist ideals and his church projects "When I design a cathedral, I realize that the pleasure I feel from its successful completion is dwarfed by the importance allocated by those who will frequent it, for there they believe to be themselves closer to God. For them, the supreme being that, omnipotent, created all. This is how I can justify this contradiction, as some people mention, between my position as a communist and my interest in designing projects of religious nature."--P. [5].

Subject:

Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012.
Church architecture Brazil.
Chapels Brazil.
Church buildings Brazil.
Architecture chrétienne Brésil.
Chapelles Brésil.
Chapels
Church architecture
Church buildings
Brazil

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Catalogues.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279373
Call No.: BIB 215403
Status: Available