Open AccessA critical review of Oscar Niemeyer's Design Process
Author(s) -
Juliana Eiko Hiroki,
Artur Simões Rozestraten
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
estoa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1390-9274
pISSN - 1390-7263
DOI - 10.18537/est.v008.n015.a01
Subject(s) - architecture , process (computing) , latin americans , sociology , visual arts , aesthetics , art history , art , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , operating system
The new technologies of today's world, applied in the perceptive and creative processes, bring the need to rediscover the role of representations in both, academic and professional, areas of architecture. Therefore, this article seeks to understand and demystify Oscar Niemeyer’s (1907-2012) design process, one of the most renowned Latin American architects in the world and known for his peculiar design process - distinguished by consisting only of sketches and texts, but, as this research reveals, also by physical models - and his broad professional activity, which accompanied the variations occurred in architectural production in Brazil and in the world, between the years 1940 and 2010