Creating value
Ladies and gentlemen, dear congress attendees,
On 5 December 2012, famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer died at the age of almost 105. He concentrated almost exclusively on reinforced concrete at a very early stage and designed futuristic, plastic buildings using this material that featured soft, distinctly curvilinear contours but also a balanced relationship between open space and cubature. These are buildings of inestimable value! Niemeyer’s audacious, unconventional designs laid the foundation for his reputation as one of the most pre-eminent proponents and innovators of architectural...
