Niemeyer says he went with President Juscelino Kubitschek to Brazil's vast, dry savanna, the so-called Cerrado region, where Brasilia is now located, and thought it was too far away, too empty.

Oscar Niemeyer, the last lion of architectural modernism and the most renowned cultural figure in Brazil, died Wednesday at age 104. Here, in a review essay originally published in The Atlantic ...

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost Latin American architect of the last century, brought a daring and dramatic approach to public-works design through his glass cathedrals ...

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at age 104, was the last living link to an era that truly believed in architecture and its capacity to embody progress and new technology for ...

The last project designed by Oscar Niemeyer, a 40-foot-diameter concrete sphere addition to a corporate campus in Germany, is on the rise.

Oscar Niemeyer, who drew up Brazil's modernist capital, Brasilia, and worked with Le Corbusier on the United Nations headquarters in New York, created a boldly futuristic command center for the ...