Oscar Niemeyer: A Selective Bibliography

Oscar Niemeyer: A Selective Bibliography
Compiled by Aileen Smith, AA Deputy Librarian, November 2008
This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to
Oscar Niemeyer. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.
Books (Alphabetically by title)
Curves of time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer / Oscar Niemeyer; translated
from the Portuguese by Isabel Murat Burbridge London: Phaidon, 2000
ISBN 0714840076
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):8-94:92NIE NIE
Latin American architecture 1929-1960: contemporary reflections / edited by
Carlos Brillembourg New York: Monacelli Press, 2004 ISBN 1580931367
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(8)(729) BRI
Materia a invencao: as obras de Oscar Niemeyer em Minas Gerais 1938-1955 /
Danilo Matoso Macedo
Brasil: Centro de Documentacio e Informacio
Coordenacao de Publicacoes, 2008 ISBN 9788573655346
AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSING
Minha arquitetura 1937-2005 = My architecture 1937-2005 / Oscar Niemeyer
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Revan, 2005
ISBN 8571063257
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE NIE
Modernist paradise: Niemeyer House, Boyd Collection / text by Michael Webb;
principal photography by Tim Street-Porter New York: Rizzoli, 2007
ISBN 9780847828371
AA SHELFMARK: 728.3(73):92NIE WEB
Oscar Niemeyer / Stamo Papadaki
London: Mayflower, 1960
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE PAP
Oscar Niemeyer / Rupert Spade; photographs by Yukio Futagawa
London: Thames and Hudson, 1971
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE SPA
Oscar Niemeyer: curves of irreverence / Styliane Philippou New Haven;
London: Yale University Press, 2008
ISBN 9780300120387
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE PHI
Oscar Niemeyer: eine Legende der Moderne = a legend of modernism / edited
by Paul Andreas and Ingeborg Flagge
Basel: Birkhauser, 2003
ISBN 3764369922
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE NIE
Oscar Niemeyer: une esthetique de la fluidite / Gilbert Luigi
Marseilles: Editions Parentheses, 1987 ISBN 2863640372
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE LUI
Oscar Niemeyer 1937-1997 / Gallery-Ma Books 07
Tokyo: TOTO Shuppan, 1997
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE GAL
Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian free-form modernism / David Underwood
New York: Braziller, 1994 ISBN 0807613363
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(81):92NIE UND
Oscar Niemeyer houses / photographs by Alan Weintraub; text by Alan Hess
New York: Rizzoli, 2006
ISBN 0847827984
AA SHELFMARK: 728.036(81):92NIE WEI
Pritzker Architecture Prize 1988: Gordon Bunschaft and Oscar Niemeyer / Hyatt
Foundation Los Angeles: Hyatt Foundation, 1988
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 HYA
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 / Oscar Niemeyer
Gallery, 2003
ISBN 1904563139
London: Serpentine
AA SHELFMARK: 725.76(421):92NIE NIE
Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month
2008
‘Caro Oscar e Caro Maestro = Dear Oscar and Dear Maestro’ / article by Oscar
Niemeyer and Dante O Benini (on the occasion of his 100th birthday, includes
some of his writings from the 1970s)
in Arca (234) March 2008 / p.12-17 (text in Italian+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Brasilia’ / article by Richard J Williams
in Blueprint (263) February 2008 / p.34-38
‘Island of Innovation for Aviles: a new Guggenheim effect?; architects: Oscar
Niemeyer and others’ / article by Judith Ryser
in Topos: the International Review of Landscape Architecture and
Urban Design no.63, 2008 / p.36-41
2007
‘Fairground attraction: Niemeyer’s unfinished 1960s fairground in Tripoli,
Lebanon’ / article by Warren Singh-Bartlett
in Wallpaper (105) December 2007 / p.158-161, 163-164
‘Teatro popular: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by Till Wohler
in Space (479) October 2007 / p.102-105 (text in Korean+English)
‘Brasilia: cinquanta immagini’
in Casabella, 71 (758) September 2007 / p.3-53 (text in Italian)
‘Oscar Niemeyer – Casa da Vida: La Casa das Canoas’ / article by Stefano
Casciani, Paolo Cazzaro, Luigi Spinelli
in Domus (905) July/August 2007 / p.76-88 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Brasilia 1956-2006’ / article by Adrian Gorelik
in Casabella, 71 (753) March 2007 / p.4-29 (text in
Italian+English)
2006
‘Oscar Niemeyer’s grand finale: the Auditorio Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo’ / article by
Alexandra Forbes
in Azure, 22 (170) September 2006 / p.42-43
‘Oscar Niemeyer’s Tripoli fairground’
in Icon no.035 May 2006 / p.132-141
2005/2006
‘Oscar bravo [concert hall, Sao Paulo]’ (the completion of Oscar Niemeyer’s
concert hall in Sao Paulo is his spectacular finale for Ibirapuera Park)
in Wallpaper (84) December 2005 /January 2006 / p.76-78
2005
‘Oscar Niemeyer [interview]’ / article by Oscar Niemeyer
in Space (456) November 2005 / p.278-297 (text in
Korean+English)
‘Power house [UN headquarters, New York]’
in Wallpaper (82) October 2005 / p.127-128, 130
‘Oscar Niemeyer: vingt ans de creation (1984-2004) = Oscar Niemeyer: twenty
years of creation (1984-2004)’ / article by Lauro Cavalcanti
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (359) July/August 2005 / p.104-113
(text in French+English)
2004
‘Oscar Niemeyer today [interview]’ / article by Oscar Niemeyer and Nicoletta
Trasi
in Arca (190) March 2004 / p.2-5 (text in Italian+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, London’
in Lotus International (122) 2004 / p.58-59 (text in
Italian+English)
2003
‘Una vela nel parco = A sail in the park [Serpentine Pavilion, London; Architect:
Oscar Niemeyer]’ / article by Laura Bossi
in Domus (862) September 2003 / p.26-27 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, London’
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (396) September 2003 / p.70-77
(text in Japanese+English)
‘A grand master breaks new ground at the Serpentine’ / article by Diana Lind
in Architectural Record, 191 (8) August 2003 / p.71-72
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Parana, Brazil 2002’
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (395) August 2003 / p.34-43
(text in Japanese+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: the Brazilian modernist’s own free-form masterpiece above Rio
de Janeiro’ / article by Alan Hess
in Architectural Digest, 60 (5) May 2003 / p.324-327
‘Oscar Niemeyer, la poesia dello spazio = The poetry of space: Novo Museu,
Curitiba, Stato del Parana, Brasile’ / article by Paolo Vincenzo Genovese
in Architettura, 49 (570) April 2003 / p.262-271 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Il luogo, il paesaggio e la natura tropicale = The place, the landscape and
tropical nature: Casa das Canoas [Rio de Janeiro] – Oscar Niemeyer 1950-53’ /
article by Paul Andreas
in Lotus International (119) 2003 / p.26-39 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, London’
in GA Document (75) October 2003 / p.102-107 (text in
Japanese+English)
2002
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis, Pampulha, Brasil = St Francis
of Assisi Church, Pampulha, Brazil (1940-1943)’ / article by Justo F Isasi
in AV Monografias = AV Monographs (95) May/June 2002 / p.22-23
(text in Spanish+English)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: complexe residentiel Copan, Sao Paulo, 1951-1957’ / article by
Catherine Seron-Pierre
in Le Moniteur Architecture – AMC (123) March 2002 / p.76-79
(text in French)
‘Oscar Niemeyer: la ville radieuse [interview]’ / article by Christian de
Portzamparc and Francis Rambert
in Connaissance des Arts (591) February 2002 / p.48-55 (text in
French)
2001/2002
‘We’re all screwed: an interview with Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by Oscar
Niemeyer and Brian Mier
in Hunch: the Berlage Institute Report (4) 2001/2002 / p.18-23
2001
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Brazilian modernism [interview]’ / article by Oscar Niemeyer
and Roberto Segre
in
L.A. Architect May/June 2001 / p.[14]-19
2000
‘Oscar Niemeyer: Canoas House, suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1954’ / article
by Toshiko Kinoshita
in
A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (10) October 2000 / p.74-87,
273 (text in Japanese+English)
1999
‘Planet Niemeyer: art museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’ / article by Luis Oliveira
(Oscar Niemeyer’s Museu de Arte Contemporanea in Niteroi, near Rio)
in
Architectural Review, 205 (1226) April 1999 / p.72-75
1998
‘Building Brazil, Part 1: 1900-1964’ / article by Michael Hensel and Rumi
Kubokawa
in AA Files no.37 Autumn 1998 / p.48-54
‘The way to Brasilia’ / article by Andrew Jones
in Blueprint (154) October 1998 / p.48-51
‘Modern architecture, Brazilian corollary’ / article by Carlos Eduardo Comas
(a study of Lucio Costa’s and Oscar Niemeyer’s Ministry of Education and Health
Building in Rio de Janeiro (1936-45) and their Brazilian Pavilion at the 1939 New
York World’s Fair, and the influence on their designs of Le Corbusier’
in AA Files no.36 Summer 1998 / p.3-13
‘Brasilia architect Oscar Niemeyer wins RIBA Gold Medal’ / article by David Taylor
in Architects’ Journal, 207 (11) March 19, 1998 / p.9-11
1997
‘Oscar Niemeyer: a misbehaved pupil of rationalism’ / article by Hugo Segawa
in Journal of Architecture, 2 (4) Winter 1997 / p.291-312
‘Designing with a single line: line as form generator in the work of Oscar
Niemeyer’ / article by Fernando Lara
in Dimensions, 11 1997 / p.18-23
‘In defiance of gravity’ / article by Katherine MacInnes
in World Architecture (59) September 1997 / p.68-71
1995
‘Brasilia revisited’ / article by Alfons Hugs
in Sites (26) 1995 / p.112-114
1994
‘Women, clouds, and Oscar Niemeyer [interview]’ / article by John Morris Dixon
in Progressive Architecture, 75 (12) December 1994 / p.67-73
1993
‘Memorial dell’America Latina a San Paolo, Brasile = The Latin American
Memorial, Sao Paulo, Brazil’ / article by Oscar Niemeyer and Lionello Puppi
in Zodiac (9) March/August 1993 / p.150-179 (text in
Italian+English)
‘The utopian impulse in modern Latin American architecture: Oscar Niemeyer’s
Memorial da America Latina in Sao Paulo’ / article by David Kendrick Underwood
in Sites (25) 1993 / p.42-48
‘All I ever saw and loved in my life [Oscar Niemeyer interview]’ / article by Italo
Campofiorito
in World Architecture (26) 1993 / p.28-29
‘Oscar Niemeyer and the bird of paradise’ (profile with 15 projects from 19591985)
in World Architecture (26) 1993 / p.30-51
1991
‘Sede della Mondadori [Segrate, Italy], 1968-1975; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.12 extra edition, December
1991 / p.[237]-248 (text in Japanese+English+Italian)
‘Interview: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by Daralice D Boles
in Progressive Architecture, 72 October 1991 / p.98-99
1990
‘Oscar Niemeyer: just a sketch’ / article by Karel Vollers
in Wiederhall (12) 1990 / p.12-20
1988
‘Brasilia and the ageing of modernism; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by
Charles L Wright and Benamy Turkienicz
in Cities, 5 November 1988 / p.347-364
‘Monument to the people [interview with Oscar Niemeyer]’ / article by Patrick
Garnett
in
Building Design (891) June 24, 1988 / p.22-26
‘Bunschaft and Niemeyer named joint winners of tenth Pritzker Prize’ / article by
Frederick Albert Gutheim
in
Architecture, 77 (6) June 1988 / p.19
‘Brasilia: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by Josue Montello, Carlos Nildo, Edgar
Albuquerque Graeff and others
in
Projeto no.107 February 1988 / p.125-140 (text in Portuguese)
1983
‘Maison de la culture du Havre; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.228 September 1983 / p.20-[27]
(text in French)
1982
‘Casino Pampulha (now Pampulha Museum of Arts), Minas Gerais, Brazil;
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in GA Document no.3 January 1982 / p.442-443 (text in
Japanese+English)
1980
‘Flying arches: Office building for Fata European Group, Turin; Architect: Oscar
Niemeyer with Massimo Gennari’
in Domus (612) December 1980 / p.28-29 (text in Italian+English)
1977
‘Arnoldo Mondadori Publication House building, Milan, Italy; Architect: Oscar
Niemeyer’
in Space Design no.3 (150) March 1977 / p.41-54 (text in
Japanese)
1976
‘Les paradoxes d’Oscar Niemeyer: le nouveau siege des Editions Mondadori’ /
article by Bernard Huet
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (184) March 1976 / p.19-24 (text in
French)
1974
‘Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (171) January/February 1974 / whole
issue (text in French)
‘The architecture of Brasilia, 2’ / article by Norma Evenson
in Canadian Architect, 19 (1) January 1974 / p.40-47
1973
‘The architecture of Brasilia’ / article by Norma Evenson
in Canadian Architect, 18 November 1973 / p.50-56
1972
‘Headquarters for the French Communist Party, Paris; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer;
criticism by Sherban Cantacuzino
in Architectural Review, 151 March 1972 / p.135-144
1971
‘Brasilia: city for the year 2000’ / article by R Shean McConnell
in Official Architecture and Planning, 34 (12) December 1971 /
p.905-909
1970
‘Bresil: Palais Itamaraty a Brasilia; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Techniques et Architecture, 31 (6) March 1970 / p.88-91
in French)
(text
1966
‘Immagini di Brasilila 1966; Architectt: Oscar Niemeyer; Lucio Costa, consulting
architect’ / article by Cesare Casati
in Domus (434) January 1966 / p.2-24 (text in Italian)
‘Les derniers travaux de Oscar Niemeyer a Israel’ / article by Jean Petit
in Zodiac no.16 1966 / p.[74]-[83] (text in French)
1964
‘Project for a house in Santa Monica, California; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Arts & Architecture, 81 September 1964 / p.20-28
‘Brasilia’ / article by Olivier Marc
in Aujourd’hui, Art et Architecture, 8 (46) July 1964 / p.32-39
in French)
(text
‘Club Nautique de Pampulha; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Aujourd’hui, Art et Architecture, 8 (46) July 1964 / p.40-45
(text in French)
1963
‘Brasilia; Architects: Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa’ / article by George
Balcombe
in Architect and Building News, 224/15 October 9, 1963 / p.563-575
1962
‘Brasilia; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer; City Planner: Lucio Costa’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 32 (101) April/May 1962 / p.22-37
(text in French)
‘Pampulha Late Clube; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Modulo, 8 March 1962 / p.2-12 (text in Portuguese)
‘Habitacao pre-fabricada em Brasilia; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Modulo, 8 March 1962 / p.27-38 (text in Portuguese)
1961
‘Brasilia: um retoino’ / article by Stamo Papadaki
in Modulo, 5 August 1961 / p.2-19, 37-42 (text in Portuguese)
1960
‘Brasilia tenis clubs; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Modulo, 4 December 1960 / p.28-30
(text in Portuguese)
‘Hopital Sulamerica a Rio de Janeiro; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 31 June/July 1960 / p.38-39 (text in
French)
‘Rapporto Brasile’ / article by Bruno Alfieri, Falvio Motta, Oscar Niemeyer and
others
in Zodiac no.6 1960 / p.56-139 (text in Italian+Portuguese, English
summary p.213-214)
1959
‘Brasilia, a new national capital city; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Arts & Architecture, 76 April 1959 / p.15-21
‘Brasilia’s beginning; Architects: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article by Walter McQuade
in Architectural Forum, 110 April 1959 / p.96-103
‘Brasilia’ / article by J M Richards (masterplan for Brasilia; Architects: Oscar
Niemeyer, and Lucio Costa)
in Architectural Review, 125 February 1959 / p.94-104
1958
‘Catedral de Brasilia; Architect of Project: Oscar Niemeyer’
in
Habitat, 8 (51) November/December 1958 / p.2-3
Portuguese)
(text in
‘Brasilia, a progress report; Architects: Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa’
in Architects’ Journal, 128 November 6, 1958 / p.668-671
‘Brasilia, nouvelle capitale du Bresil; plan by Lucio Costa; architectural designs by
Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 29 (80) October/November 1958 /
p.49-71 (text in French)
1956
‘Musee d’art moderne, Caracas, Venezuela; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
in Aujourd’hui, Art et Architecture, 2 March 1956 / p.48-49 (text in
French)
1955
‘La casa di Oscar Niemeyer’
in Domus (302) January 1955 / p.10-14 (text in Italian)
1953
‘Brazilian preview’ (includes Flats at Rio de Janeiro & Petropolis and hotel at
Sao Paulo; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer)
in Architectural Review, 114 July 1953 / p.10-15
1952
‘The work of Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 23 August 1952 / p.52-53, 83, 86-87,
91-93, 107-109, 114-121, 130-133
(text in French)
1950
‘Report on Brazil’ / article by Alf Byden (includes work by Oscar Niemeyer)
in Architectural Review, 108 October 1950 / p.221-232
‘Bank at Rio de Janeiro; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Review, 107 April 1950 / p.221-223
1949
‘Project for a house in Santa Barbara’
in Arts & Architecture, 66 March 1949 / p.26-29
‘Boavista Bank, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil’
in Progressive Architecture, 30 March 1949 / p.60-62
1947
‘Parc Edouardo Guinle; Architects: Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 19 December 1947 / p.32-35
‘Tourist hotel in Ouro Preto; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Forum, 87 November 1947 / p.71-72
‘New town for Brazilian aeronautical center; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Forum, 87 November 1947 / p.76-77
‘La maison d’Oscar Niemeyer
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 18 September 1947 / p.48-49
‘Golf club a Pampulha; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 18 September 1947 / p.39
‘Hotel a Ouro-Preto; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 18 September 1947 / p.46-47
‘Hotel de Montanha; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Progressive Architecture, 28 April 1947 / p.58-59
‘Yacht club, Botafogo; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Progressive Architecture, 28 April 1947 / p.56-57
1946
‘Chapel of St Francis, Pampulha, Brazil’
in Progressive Architecture, 27 December 1946 / p.52-55
1945
‘Proposed national stadium, Brazil; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Forum, 82 June 1945 / p.118-122
1944
‘Niemeyer House; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Review, 95 May 1944 / p.134
‘Cavalcanti House; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in Architectural Review, 95 May 1944 / p.130-133
1943
‘New architecture at Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’ / article
by Philip L Goodwin
in Magazine of Art, 36 March 1943 / p.90-93
‘Brazilian architecture: living and building below the equator; includes Yacht
Club, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte; Architect: Oscar Niemeyer; Ministry of
Education; Architects: Niemeyer, Vasconcellos and others, with Le Corbusier as
consultant; Obra do Berco (Nursery); Architect: Oscar Niemeyer’
in
New Pencil Points, 24 January 1943 / p.54-65
Websites
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/aug/01/architecture
www.arcspace.com/architects/Niemeyer
Compiled by Aileen Smith, AA Deputy Librarian
November 2008