2012/12/06
In Rio de Janeiro one of the most outstanding architects ХХ века Оскар Нимейер has died, informs ABCNews. He has died in hospital at the age of 104 years, not having lived to an anniversary only ten days. In the beginning of this year Нимейер has been hospitalised in one of hospitals of Rio de Janeiro with a pneumonia, and in November - with dehydration and infringement of work of kidneys. The attending physician of the architect, has told, that it till last days worked over new projects, to it engineers and other experts came to chamber. " The most impressing is that its body suffered, but its mind was clear. He never spoke about death. He spoke about a life ", - the doctor has added. Нимейер by right it is considered one of founders of modern school of the Brazilian architecture, the trailblazer and the experimenter in the field of ferro-concrete designs. Among its works - headquarters of the French communist party in Paris, United Nations building in New York and a modern art museum in the Brazilian city of Niteroi. All its works distinguish smoothness of lines, he said, that" the direct, rigid and nonflexible lines created by the person, do not involve "it. The love to bent lines Нимейер a smog embody in 1960th when has designed some the important public constructions for" a future city "- new Brazilian capital Brazilia. - cathedral Пресвятой of Maiden Maria which consists of 16 bent columns symbolising hands, upraised to the sky. For this building the architect in 1988 Has received the Prittskerovsky award - the most prestigious award in the field of architecture. Бразилиа now the unique modern city entered in the list of the World heritage of UNESCO. In 2007, to 100 anniversary Нимейера, Putin has signed the decree about rewarding of the architect by the Friendship award for the big contribution to development of the Russian-Brazilian relations. Нимейер was the foreign honorary member of the Russian academy of arts.
