PremioKubitschek iadb. Technical Coordinator: Maria de la Paz Covarrubias mariapazr iadb. Press Contact: Isabel Alvarez-Rodriguez isabela iadb. Origin of the Award Juscelino Kubitschek, a distinguished Brazilian physician and politician, was born in in Diamantina, Mina Gerais in Brazil, to a family of humble means; his Brazilian father was a traveling salesman and his mother, of Czechoslovak origin, was a teacher.
Selection Committee. Origin of the award. Videos and promotional material. Documents Rules and Bylaws. The rebuilding of Garrincha Stadium is ongoing. The brand-new stadium, which is being constructed in its place will be called National Stadium of Brasilia. He spent his youth as a typical young Carioca of the time: bohemian and relatively unconcerned with his future.
He concluded his secondary education at age The same year, he married Annita Baldo, daughter of Italian immigrants from Padua. Marriage gave him a sense of responsibility: he decided to work and enter university. He started to work in his father's typography house and entered the Escola de Belas Artes, from which he graduated as engineer architect in He felt unsatisfied with the architecture that he saw in the streets and believed he could find a career there.
In , already an architect of some repute, he joined the Brazilian Communist Party. Niemeyer was a boy at the time of the Russian Revolution of , a young idealist during the Second World War and lived most of his life during the Cold War. He was enthusiastically communist, a position which would cost him much later in his life. During the military dictatorship of Brazil his office was raided and he was forced into exile in Europe.
The Minister of Aeronautics of the time reportedly said that "the place for a communist architect is Moscow. Fidel Castro once said: "Niemeyer and I are the last Communists of this planet. In Pampulha, Niemeyer started to mark his style: he used the structural properties of the armed concrete to give sinuous forms to the building.
When Niemeyer draws a building he makes it with the minimum of possible traces, as organic and trembling as a gesture of the hand. In , his world-wide recognition was confirmed when Niemeyer travelled to the United States to design the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. In the previous year he had received an invitation to teach at Yale University; however, his visa was denied because of his socialist beliefs.
Then Juscelino Kubitschek, elected president of Brazil in , once again came in contact with Niemeyer. This time his plans were far more ambitious: he put Niemeyer in the head of Novacap, a project to move the national capital to a depopulated region in the center of the country.
Niemeyer would design the buildings and Lucio the plan of the city.
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