The Curves Of Time The Memoirs Of Oscar Niemeyer

For anyone interested in Brazil or Bossa Nova you should know about Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who built the city of Brasilia in the hinterland of Brazil. his radical designs emerged as a new generation of creative Brazilians emerged to redefine Brazilian creative arts - music, art, design and more. Niemeyer's work emerged at the same time as Bossa Nova in the early 19 50s. This is is why you should buy this book!

Here Niemeyer recounts his life in an informal, fluid narrative that moves from his childhood in Rio, through to friendships with intellectuals and politicians such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Fidel Castro, to tales of adventurous road trips. The book includes 40 specially-made sketches by Niemeyer, a chronology of his notes and an index.