O. Niemeyer
By: by Erik van der Weijde
Contributors: Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Rollo -- no. 25; Rollo -- no. 25.
Publisher: Rollo Press & 4487 Zine
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Zürich]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9783905999327
Subjects: Pictorial works; Architectural photography; Architecture; Modern Architecture; Buildings, structures
Description: Dutch photographer Erik van der Weijde uses a simple book of full-page, black-and-white photographs without text to present architect Oscar Niemeyer's monumental work in the modernist city of Brasília. These images of the so-called utopian city are stark and carefully devoid of people. In this way, Van der Weijde chooses for a clear focus on the structures and urban spaces, lending the series an architectural purity and imparting some of the grand scale of the city, perhaps even agreeing with the critics who have referred to it as dehumanising and full of elegant monotony--Publisher description.
Notes: Title & description from jacket cover including flaps.

"Rollo no. 25; file under: Niemeyer, architect, modernism"--Spine.

"I'd rather be an architect."