Church of St Francis of Assisi, Brazil

BUILDING CODE    
Church of St Francis of Assisi
 
Date of Birth                          
1946

BIRTH PLACE         
Pampulhla, Brazil

ARCHITECT             
Oscar Niemeyer 

WHY I LIKE              
The wall art piece, the curvy shape of the roof

ARCHITECT 'S OTHER BABY    

Duque de Caxiasque, United Nation HQ(New York), National Congress Building(Brazil), Modern Art Museum, Niteroi, Cathedral of Brasilia(Brazil)

SOME INFO        

-Niemeyer was born in 1907
-blue and the white tile art piece is creation of artist Candido Portinari

-the creator's website: http://www.niemeyer.org.br/
-The Pritzker Architecture Prize celebrates its Tenth Anniversary 1988 by honoring Niemeyer as Laureates

-Niemeyer is a pioneer in exploring the formal possibilities of reinforced concrete solely for their aesthetic impact
 

CREATOR'S QUOTE

"Our concern is political too – to change the world, ...Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings"

"I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein"

i like building

why i like building

building is easier to capture compared to capturing picture of cute lady or sleeping granma
every building is a piece of art
many building need to be captured before they be torn down by those mega project of development
building have different colour
building have different shape
building is where we can find traces of history
no everyone can built same building, so every single one is special
they like to ask me to shoot them when i passing by (but they can only have one pose)

arrr... i like building