Oscar Niemeyer: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Dec 11, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 01, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 29, 2024
Media added. May 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous Architect - Biography of Oscar Niemeyer. Nov 27, 2019
Add new Web site: Praemium Imperiale - Biography of Oscar Niemeyer. Jan 30, 2019
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Oscar Niemeyer, Architect Who Gave Bras�lia Its Flair, Dies at 104. Dec 15, 2016
Add new Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Biography of Oscar Niemeyer. Feb 12, 2013
Updated to note Niemeyer's death. Also noted that the cultural centre in Avilés, Spain, was inaugurated in 2011. Dec 05, 2012
Added image of Niemeyer's Cathedral of Brasília. Feb 01, 2012
Updated to include Niemeyer's receipt of the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture in 2004. Feb 01, 2012
Added information about the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation and the 2010 opening of its headquarters in Niterói. Jan 20, 2011
Media added. Feb 26, 2009
Article revised and updated. Mar 11, 2008
Added new Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer. Oct 04, 2006
Added new Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer. Oct 04, 2006
Article revised and updated. Jul 27, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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