Dec 15, 2010 Oscar Niemeyer less grumpy at 103
“Turning 102 is crap,” Oscar Niemeyer told AFP a year ago, “and there is nothing to commemorate.” These days seem to be going a lot better. Last week the main architect behind the past-future feel of Brasilia debuted “Tranquilo Com a Vida” (“Feeling Good About Life”), a samba (and tribute to the favelas of Rio) he co-wrote with Edu Krieger and Caio Almeida. Today, turning 103, he was celebrated at the inauguration of the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation’s new headquarters (pictured), a 4,000-sq.-meter spread in Niterói that, when it opens in the first quarter of next year, will house a research and documentation center and the Oscar Niemeyer School of Architecture and the Humanities. The future is less crap!
(Reuters photo)