RIO DE JANEIRO -- In his waterfront office high above this dazzling metropolis, Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's 94-year-old legend of modern architecture, is surrounded by curves. The windows of curved glass ...

"It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me it ...

Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday, December 5 at 104, was one of ...

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Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, renowned for designing bold, open structures that blend with their surroundings, was named the winner of the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize on Sunday.