Oscar Niemeyer : The last modern architect

[@Prabhu149]

Man, Netflix should officially hire you for a docuseries like this. Brilliant work, the visuals, the music choice, Everything is so articulate 👌

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@smb123211]

Get serious - Netflix likes things like the Goop Lab, Supersize Me and sensational crimes.

[@doudeau1988]

Bro I stopped paying for Netflix and switched to KZbin premium. I have all the content I want here and all the music I want.

[@smb123211]

@@doudeau1988 I quit Netflix months ago when I saw what they were charging and how I watched virtually nothing. I have Roku, get Hulu from my granddaughter and will get Apple when the shows complete the season. Yet I know folks who have Disney, HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Prime, Acorn, etc. A small fortune..

[@rinaldodelucca8073]

I interviewed Oscar Niemeyer in his office in November 1989. He talked to me and my friends for two hours and allowed us to visit Das Canoas House. He was a very humble man and we also talked about politics and football (soccer). I will cherish this memory forever.

[@blessedarch]

Thats incredible ❤️

[@arte2arquiteto]

I had the privilege of knowing and working with Oscar in the early to mid-2000s. During that time, I witnessed some of the most remarkable creations of his career in the Atlantic Avenue office. I consider him both a friend and a mentor, as he taught me invaluable lessons that I still hold onto today. I miss him greatly and cherish the moments I spent with him and his family.

[@mikeheap7978]

Whether you like modern architecture of not this mans designs never offend the eye. The forms are imaginative yet simplistic, a true genius.

[@truebras]

Beautifully told history of Oscar Niemeyer. I visited Brasilia first time in 1974. Back then the city was in its teens of existence. All the buildings designed by Niemeyer still gleaming and in Brazil, the modern architecture was on its height. The city itself wasn’t teaming with life. Most people that lived in the “Super Quadras”, the planned super blocks, didn’t necessarily enjoyed to live in them. Like many large urban planned projects, the designing of buildings and infrastructure didn’t take in consideration how actually humans interact de facto with it. “Brasilia urban master plan looks beautiful from the air but it wasn’t built for human scale”. That was a popular saying from that time. The “cidades satélites” or satelite cities around Brasilia where the majority of workforce that built Brasilia were housed and later became permanent settlement of those that decided to stay after the capital was done. These were basically non planned cities and had severe lack of infrastructure. They were basically “favelas”. It took some time for Brasilia become a place where the majority of its inhabitants enjoy living there. Ironically, when city planners started dropping what was planned from original urban master plan and let it grow in an organic manner, people started enjoy there. Brasilia wasn’t the first planned city in Brazil. Belo Horizonte, the biggest city in the state of Minas Gerais where once president Juscelino Kubitscheck was the governor and Curitiba in the South Eastern region were also planned cities. But perhaps because their implementation was more about of organizing the streets and roads than determining separation of zoning for government administration, commercial and residential, these cities grew in more organic way and they residents didn’t face the same problems of first residents of Brasilia. Many of built projects of Niemeyer may face preservation challenges since the oldest ones are more than 70 years now. I remember that the Niemeyer’s complex o Pampulha as one of them. So, it is buildings at Ibiraquera Park. I do agree that much of his work in the 1980’s at least in Brazil didn’t live to standards of work that he did previous decades. I do like a lot of his work of later years. The museum in Niterói is one of my favorite projects. Just prior to his death a Brazilian TV channel made a long interview with Niemeyer. I hope you had chance to see it. Thanks for posting this video.

[@eugeniob.1151]

Un architetto ed uomo straordinario, che ha attraversato con stile ed eleganza il XX secolo e tutte le sue brutture. Ottimo video!!!

[@igordantax]

Such a beatiful tribute to one of the greatest of all time! As a brazilian architect, Oscar was, and still is for me, an endless source of inspiration, in architecture and in life! You did justice to his legacy! Congrats!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@paulocembranelli5514]

As a Brazilian I would like to thank you for the best documentary ever on Oscar Neimeyer, due to politics, religion, the military and all the conservative forces, Neimeyer has not gotten the recognition he deserves...

[@demha5775]

I've long known of Niemeyer and familiar with his work, but I never really knew much of his life story. Thanks for creating such an enjoyable and informative video on him. You made me more interested about him than before.

[@oliverlondon5246]

Very good documentary and great presentation. Many thanks for that. What a talent. I love Oskar Niemeyer’s work

[@blessedarch]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MokotediToday]

A wonderful tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest visionaries. Growing up in South Africa in the 70s and 80s, I was always awestruck by some of the buildings I saw. I later realised that they were part of a global movement that was arguably spearheaded by none other than Oscar Niemeyer. The missed utopian social ideals of modernist architecture are in my opion a result of political misalignment as opposed to what detractors might term as flawed philosophy.

[@slavomt5832]

A brilliantly made documentary, with beautiful narration, wonderful photos and undisguised admiration for Niemeyer's talent and personality. I watched it with great pleasure 🧡 I saw some of his works live, e.g. Museum in Niteroi... Greetings from Warsaw, Poland.

[@Mr67Stanger]

A great documentary. Very well illustrated and narrated. In my country, Puerto Rico, there are many modernist-style buildings that resemble Neimayer's style and language. Mostly in San Juan and Ponce.

[@aleph71]

Lindo! Wonderful video. Very aesthetical. Oscar would have liked. Thank you!

[@MrGuto]

This is really excellent! Very good documentary, well produced and edited.

[@jmanuelgbernal9904]

Gran documental, felicitaciones

[@arturgodoy99]

Very nice! I was born and live in Brasília. With the short time you separated to talk about it you were able to expose clearly not only the good sides of the city but also the things that went wrong. Awesome video! Greetings from Brasil.

[@blessedarch]

I am glad I was able to do it justice, thank you so much

[@michaellaforte6964]

Thanks for this! Very well done. His work is majestic, timeless, inspired, hard to find work at this level today

[@zuzanna9089]

I watch your videos in a train whenever I travel back home after whole week of studying architecture. Tired, sometimes flustrated with too many thoughts in my head. I always end up being so inspired by your work and the great architects you present. The music, the quotes, the fotos and story telling ... Perfect. Just perfect content. Congratulations and greetings from Poland!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much. This means a lot ❤️

[@Archdaystudio]

Thanks, Father of modern architect. and thanks blessedArch My mind burned thinking: "what is he doing at the age of 22?, what achievements has he achieved at this age?, how is he so consistently studying hard in this industry?, how does he divide his time between personal matters and architecture?". From these questions I want to correlate my life at the age of 22 with his life for 22 years. So, I know that it will take decades to achieve the achievements mentioned by native speakers. so I can find out my current abilities and his habits at that time. So I can conclude that I need to study, work hard and allocate time to reach this point. 😊😊

[@Gui_biscoito]

Que memorial estupendo! Parabéns pela excelente produção. Eu nasci em 1999 e minha geração conheceu muito pouco da vida de Niemeyer, que para nós brasileiros continua sendo um ícone, mas um tanto controverso. Hoje suas obras não são tão celebradas, estando em voga o neoecletismo da arquitetura contemporânea e há até mesmo aqueles que defendem o retorno do rigor clássico da academia pré-moderna, alegando falta de "alma" nos palácio projetados por Niemeyer. Confesso que não tenho muito apresso pelo modernismo, mas os palácio pensados por ele são inegavelmente surpreendentes, como monumentos funcionais. Os palácios da Alvorada e Itamaraty, para mim, são o ápice de sua atuação em Brasília. Agora, sobre as residências unifamiliares, elas marcaram muito a época e hoje estão um tanto defasadas (das poucas que sobraram, creio que há apenas quatro no Brasil, das quais apenas uma está no mercado imobiliário e não se tornou um museu). Apesar disso, o legado dele é imenso para nossa arquitetura, através dos cobogós, espelhos d'água e curva e contra curva do concreto armado. Ainda temos bons arquitetos, mas por enquanto não surgiram outras obras com um ar "futurista" e até mesmo de real "atemporalidade" que seus palácios e museus imprimem até os dias de hoje.

[@ChrisMcVoy]

Thanks!

[@thabontai2714]

First of all, I'd like to respect the fact that his passion for architecture was so strong that he decided to chase his dream at the age of 21 and went on to live a beautiful life producing beautiful architecture. This video really inspires me because I too hope to become one of the greats. I am at the age of 22 and this video has shown me that with the desire to chase my dreams, I too will achieve greatness. Not saying I'm going to leave school and start working😂, however, I will continue on my journey with a hunger to even cause as much of an uproar as Oscar caused.

[@lutendolukhele6754]

You can do it , I’m rooting for you

[@Nahalmeida29]

What an incredible video! Congratulations on your research. Even though I am a Brazilian architect and had this artist as inspiration, I learned a lot from your video! If you want to make a video about the landscaper Roberto Burle Max one day, he complements Oscar's works to become more grandiose. He mastered the technique of the beauty of forest and concrete.

[@claudiofeldman]

Yes,Burle Marx was another Great artist too!

[@charlottes8127]

He is a landscape architect

[@suburbanhomestead]

You sir are the best documentary writer I’ve seen in a long time. And you have a perfect narration voice that is very approachable. I personally don’t even like modernist architecture that much, but some of Oscar buildings are sublime. It may be precisely because he wasn’t afraid of beauty like the others that came before him.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@zyabomhango3848]

This was awesome! Really enjoyed watching it. 🤩 Thanks for putting this together.

[@blessedarch]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@pinogenti70]

Thanks

[@axl9674]

Fui a Brasilia hace unos años, como arquitecto me parecio un lugar increible, un aplauso p este genio !

[@danielaluft5034]

Very nicely compiled! Many thanks for your efforts to bring together information about one of the best and most interesting architects of all time and to honor him with this compilation! Best regards from Zurich, Daniela

[@heraldocosta1469]

Excellent video, well done over view of the life and art of Niemeyer. As a Brazilian he make us very proud of genius e avant-garde thinking.

[@bydiegoandres]

This documentary is marvelous, the best one about him. I love this man's work. The style, the drawings, how he represented my nation and our unique beauty. I am brazilian, and I see his buildings in the city I was born in, Belo Horizonte, and the city I grew up in, Diamantina. Great video!

[@momcc7882]

Loved this documentary it was very educational and interesting. Thank you

[@tiatialinakhjavani6000]

Awe inspiring. Thank you so much for putting this together.

[@Molloy1951]

If you have ever been to Brasilia, you might understand why B.razil was called “the country of the future”. It's a masterpiece emboldening Brazilian aspirations.

[@DanielleA2023]

Great video and analysis/biography/ assessment/review ❤

[@SchroderPhotography]

Fantastic documentary. Niemeier was amazing, imagine working to 104!

[@claudiofeldman]

I thought the video was very well done, very well narrated and created a good atmosphere, to talk about Niemeyer. (I studied his work a lot and visited several of his creations, I also read and bought Modulo Magazine, which one could find in Buenos Aires, SCA library, and some other Books written by the same. A great Man. Greetings, Thank you!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you, I am glad you liked it

[@paulchristian7693]

Creative people think differently have ideas we cannot imagine. 🤔

[@yvonnenhan6838]

Beautiful video and content! Great work! Thank you!

[@nclamar9311]

bro keep these videos coming your good at what you do this is now the only way i can learn arch theory

[@sukhrajssehgal7210]

Nicely done buddy! Thoroughly enjoyed it! Though I am now curious about the painting behind Niemeyer in the frame at 35:10. Looks brilliant and maybe one of the inspirations of the mound-like elements he built.

[@blessedarch]

I am not completely sure but It could be. i mean Oscar did use to say Form follows Feminine.

[@guistranoet3942]

My favorite architect, a great socialist and and a national hero! Congratulations from Brazil, great video!

[@rushabh.1112]

Thank you for bringing such a wast life of Oscar Sir to us. Being an architecture student i always seek for your videos when i had nothing to do. I would like to meet you in person once. Thank you once again

[@mikehenson819]

You did an amazing job on this ! I found it informative and engaging. Thank you!

[@abhijeet_singh31]

A Story I didn't knew I Much needed. Thnx

[@themamo8249]

What a decumentry to be honest. Fair play blessed arch.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you

[@ceridavies3434]

Really interesting and informative. Well presented. Appreciated, thanks.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you. Glad you liked it 😀

[@M.A.K.666]

It feels so good coming back to modern contemporary architecture, when you see prof. James steven Curl, hating on „modernism“ in general because of lack of „ornament and human scale“. Architecture happens not on surfaces, but in between of them. Thank you for the documentary.

[@chevadinesh6068]

Ch-3 intro music 👌

[@reitsmaassociates]

Excellent presentation of an amazing Designer !!!

[@akshaydube6215]

Very well done. Applause for the sheer amount of work.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@adlr13470]

Whats an amazing piece of work. Thank you.

[@ibrahimbakr8788]

Very very good documentary video.... Cangrulation..bro..

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@IonBruma-l1w]

Well done, mate! Keep going with your materials.

[@BirukHailu-us9gf]

Thank you.

[@liteswitvh]

Excellent documentary!

[@dt-qh2cj]

Well made film! Thank you, I enjoyed this very much!

[@blessedarch]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@gersonsantos9564]

Great documentary! Keep grinding! 💪🏾

[@piotrusmail4]

Wspaniały film i wspaniały bohater!

[@zakiahassan5564]

Plz keep up the good work

[@claudioluismolina1042]

Gracias, muy interesante y agradecido

[@nationaltoolcompany]

I love his Bologna product and Hot Dogs. So cool.

[@bernardmaree790]

Amazing video with incredible insights to what socialism in architecture can do and how modernism has influenced it. It creates interesting possibilities for the individuals architectural thought process and even more theoretical conversations to be had.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you and yes, a lot of the architecture of the 20th century was linked with various social and political ideologies and it is interesting to see and talk about how these issues trickle down into design thinking.

[@leomelina5468]

Bravo!!!😊

[@joseraul65]

Beautifully done!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you very much!

[@khangle8231]

Gropius’s comment about the mass production is a bit funny lol. Considering the context that Oscar’s work is never the same. He is talking Bauhaus to the wrong guy lol

[@toriniti737]

Adorei esse video. Parabéns !

[@valtercorreia5663]

só faltou um foco no copam, no mais excelente vídeo

[@studiocave2378]

I wish these documentaries existed during my college days... my perspective towards the Architect and Architecture would have been completely different.

[@sannfelix1896]

Pq não escolheu uma playlist brasileira, para compor o documentário?

[@aidakalefa659]

Great presentation. Many thanks

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much. Glad you liked it :D

[@anubhutichambial6854]

It's such a beautiful documentary. Your voice was the cherry on the cake. Amazing! Keep making more. Kept me on my toes all through the length of the video.

[@lemilemi5385]

Thank you

[@zakiahassan5564]

This is so cool

[@ralphehlers849]

Wonderful - inspiring

[@jessicaT12345]

this docu is incredible!!!!

[@blessedarch]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tomlouisstrzebkowski4070]

such a great production. Thank you :)

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@dhyeypatel8615]

A very great documentary keep it up

[@blessedarch]

Thank you ❤️

[@henriquedecarvalho6245]

Very good video. Only one correction: Oscar didn’t give up architecture school. He graduated properly. After graduation, he worked drawing for other architects at home (at night) while he worked at Lúcio Costa’s office without salary. That was the time he took part at the 1936 project with Corbusier.

[@mariosergiobigarani5524]

Documentário genial!!!

[@mohammedabdulwahid1434]

great presentation

[@jackc5315]

This was so awesome. Thank you.

[@kpawils]

nice my boy

[@eosmin2029]

amazing docu!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you ❤️

[@Samuelsongwe]

Clean production good music selection

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@70888825]

Love this documentary ❤ and @prabhu said it correctly

[@kaps.]

I love this. Pls don't stop making these

[@blessedarch]

More coming very soon

[@Felipe.Amancio]

His latest project is being built in the city of Belo Horizonte. It is the Christ the King Cathedral. (Catedral Cristo Rei).

[@garvilpatel1369]

Very good Documentary on modern architect with best explantion through storytelling that too in parts. Do look on 12:28-12:30 time frame for a glitch of frame otherwise video is truly infomative

[@blessedarch]

Actually because that shot is from google earth, the camera while rotating just entered one of the buildings for a frame, I should have correct the path tho in the final render, will take care of it in the future. And I am glad you liked the video.

[@SriChaanthanaKabaaleeshwer]

When will your architecture graphics and rhino course be made available again ?....its not available on the website

[@cesarcortes3891]

Lately I’ve got interested in Modernism, specially Le corbusier and Louis Kahn’s work, after watching this documentary I couldn’t ignored Niemeyer’s work. Great work and inspiration for young architects;also I want to thank you for your great work with this documentary

[@blessedarch]

Thank you :D

[@carloselv9046]

Congratulationss!!!! AMAZINGGG WORK

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much 😀

[@rca-in-glasgow6781]

Well done. Thanks!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you. Glad you liked it :D

[@SuprioAongon]

Excellent job done

[@blessedarch]

Thank you

[@filmstuff0]

This was amazing

[@amreshsc1024]

inspiring documentary

[@thegamer7141]

Some Respect 🎉

[@randygeyer7673]

Delightful! :)

[@macpadua]

Congratulation. I was surprised, you know much more about the life of this master of architecture than many Brazilians, unfortunately.

[@KC-lc8dx]

Awesome!

[@mellis966]

Well Done! Great Narrative!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you