Who Is: Oscar Niemeyer

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1968

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Describes how Oscar Niemeyer, a Brazilian architect who helped design the United Nations, joined forces with Brazil in 1956 to build a new city and society--Brasilia. Depicts Niemeyer continuing toward the completion of the city which has more aesthetic emphasis than traditional American and European designs. Reveals Niemeyer's disappointment that life continues to be stratified and formalized rather than the hope for new social organization.

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