A Look Back at Oscar Niemeyer, Master of Curved Concrete http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect, who rose to prominence in the 1940s, and died this past week, pushed the limits of concrete. He took a material that had historically been used for slabs, beams and pillars and sculpted it into arches and curves of every kind.



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