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Author - Oscar Niemeyer
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Life
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important....
Work
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Design
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you....
Form
Form follows beauty.
Political
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
Feminine
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows....
Anything
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act....
Brazil
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
Existence
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.....
Progress
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried....
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