Oscar Niemeyer: Quotes about beauty

Oscar Niemeyer was Brazilian architect. Explore interesting quotes on beauty.
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“First were the thick stone walls, the arches, then the domes and vaults — of the architect, searching out for wider spaces.
Now it is concrete-reinforced that gives our imagination flight with its soaring spans and uncommon cantilevers. Concrete, to which architecture is integrated, through which it is able to discard the foregone conclusions of rationalism, with its monotony and repetitious solutions.
A concern for beauty, a zest for fantasy, and an ever-present element of surprise bear witness that today's architecture is not a minor craft bound to straight-edge rules, but an architecture imbued with technology: light, creative and unfettered, seeking out its architectural scene.”

Oscar Niemeyer

Acceptance speech, Pritzker Architecture Prize http://www.pritzkerprize.com/bunnei.htm#Oscar%20Niemeyer's%20Acceptance%20Speech (1988).

Beauty , Imagination , Search , Light

“I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete.… This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.”

Oscar Niemeyer

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 62.

Women , World , Beauty , Mountain

“My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."”

Oscar Niemeyer

Source: Quoted in Tracy Metz, "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong," Architectural Record (December 1997), p. 35.

Beauty

“It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice.”

Oscar Niemeyer

Original: (pt) É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.
Source: Quoted in Alberto Xavier, Depoimento de uma geração: arquitetura moderna brasileira

Forgetting , Beauty