crystal palace
day 51
ciro miguel
oscar niemeyer dislikes
regardless of the scale, whether urban or architectural, oscar niemeyer always justified his projects in the same way: with texts and sketches. these sketches, quickly drawn by the architect himself, were meant to be didactic, an easy way to understand a concept or a certain tectonic detail. they usually came in two versions: the chosen solution and the supposedly wrong one, marked with a big x.by degrading the ordinary, the banal, the repetitive, the irregular, and anything that interferes with the landscape, niemeyer reinforced his authorship of unusual forms, spatial generosity, and transparency. this is a small collection of situations that oscar niemeyer dislikes and experiments with possibilities he once discarded.