Paris 1965
Niemeyer, the foyer of the working class and his avant-garde, professional and artistic perspectives
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Oscar Niemeyer, Headquarters of the French Communist Party, avant-garde, modern architecture, BrazilAbstract
The professional career of Oscar Niemeyer -the most renowned Brazilian architect at the international level who was the 1988 Pritzker Prize winnerconcurred virtually with the development of twentieth-century modern architecture. The article focuses on a particular stage of his career which coincided, on one hand, with the worldwide acknowledgment of Niemeyer as the architect of Brasilia -the new capital of Brazil recently passed to military authorities- and, on the other, with the commission to design the new Headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris. My aim is to suggest that, on that occasion, he played professional, avant-garde, artistic, and also militant roles that seemed to overlap and shift from one to another.
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