France Honors Brazilian Architect

Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:44 PM EST
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RIO DE JANEIRO — France honored Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer with the Legion of Honor Wednesday, days before his 100th birthday.

French ambassador Antoine Pouillieute presented the medal with the rank of commander to Niemeyer in his Copacabana office.

"I am very pleased to be receiving this honor from France, a people from whom I received so many favors, so much," Niemeyer said upon receiving the award.

Niemeyer, who celebrates his 100th birthday Saturday, lived in exile in France in 1964 after he was forced out of Brazil due to his affiliations with the Communist Party.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Niemeyer graduated from Brazil's National School of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined a team that worked with Swiss-born Bauhaus giant Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health.

In 1939, Niemeyer teamed up with Lucio Costa to design the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, for which he was named an honorary citizen of New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Niemeyer's architectural work in France includes the Cultural House in Havre and the Bobigny Labor Exchange among others.

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Leonardo Leiria Fernandes

Not to mention he is the main architect of the city of Brasilia. The capital of Brazil.

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