(Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho)
* 1907 in Rio de Janeiro
† 2012 in Rio de Janeiro
- studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; graduated in 1934
- from 1934 worked in the office of the Brazilian city planner Lùcio Costa
- from 1945 member of the Communist Party of Brazil
- 1947–1953 representative of Le Corbusier on the planning committee for the UN Headquarters in New York
- 1957–1964 public buildings in Brasília
- from 1966 exiled to Algeria and France; later taught at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- 1982 final return to Brazil; membership in numerous institutions; his work received many awards; intensive planning and construction work until his death in 2012
- 2013 inclusion of his architectural archive in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
