Oscar Niemeyer was in actiu m is seventy years, from the col · collaboration in 1936 with Lúcio Costa and Le Corbusier, one of his first projects, until his death in December 2012. An ethnic t pioneer and one of the m important architects of the twentieth century, he designed nearly 700 completed and uncompleted constructions and, m is notably, he ser the architect of the main monuments of Brasília, the futuristic capital city of his homeland and his undisputed masterpiece. 96 p.: photo, color, 18.5x23 cm., paperback