Résidence Saint-Hospice

Oscar Niemeyer, trained at the School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, collaborated with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier in the 1930s, which influenced his artistic sense of volume and form, later becoming his signature style. In the 1950s, he received numerous commissions in Brazil, notably from President Juscelino Kubitschek, with whom he formed a friendship. After the ambitious project of Brasília enhanced his reputation globally, Niemeyer left Brazil in 1965 due to his opposition to the military regime established after the coup d’état by Humberto Castelo Branco.