Oscar Niemeyer in 3D by Vicente de Paulo

In limited edition the photographer Vicente de Paulo has captured some of the most iconic buildings by great Brazilian architect "Oscar Niemeyer" and has manipulated the results so that they come to life when seen through 3D glasses. Hat tip for all!!

Cathedral of Brasilia, Brasilia, 1958. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Visionaire (the limited-edition multi-format art and fashion publication) and Paddle8 (the online art market) have together commissioned ten 3D photographs of Niemeyer's most iconic architectural work -- built from the 1940s through 90s in Sao Paolo, Brasilia and Rio -- that will be released in September 2012 (coinciding with the opening of the Sao Paolo Biennial) as a limited-edition slide portfolio designed to accompany the new Visionaire 62 RIO issue, which comes packaged with a stereoscope in a lenticular case. The idea is to experience these iconic buildings via sophisticated 3-D photography, as never before seen.

The slide portfolio, produced in an edition of 200, is now available for pre-order exclusively at Paddle8. Paddle8.com has also released a web-only exhibition featuring the 3D photos as well as a rare, exclusive audio interview with the 104 years-old architect.

Available On Paddle8. A Limited-Edition Portfolio Of Ten Slides Featuring 3d Photographs Of Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Iconic Masterpieces Will Be Released To Accompany The Latest Issue Of Visionaire.

Produced in an edition of 200, the Oscar Niemeyer portfolio features some of his most well-known churches, museums, civic and residential structures built from the 1940s to the 1990s in Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro.

Photography by Vicente de Depaulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Visionaire is a limited edition multi-format art and fashion publication. For its 62nd edition, Visionaire RIO features a series of slides by international contemporary artists and a stereoscope for viewing the slides in 3D.

The slides and stereoscope are packaged in a lenticular case: one featuring art by Fernando & Humberto Campana, the other featuring art by Beatriz Milhazes. Retail price: $375.

The Oscar Niemeyer portfolio contains ten slides to be viewed in 3D with the Visionaire 62 RIO stereoscope.

Special packaging allows the portfolio to complement the Visionaire 62 RIO format.

In conjunction with the series of slides, Paddle8 will launch on July 25 a special web-based editorial project featuring an exclusive audio interview with Niemeyer; archival materials from his studio, including drawings, blue- prints and family photos; a video trailer produced for Paddle8 TV; and the ten photographs by Vicente Depaulo viewable as 2D images or as anaglyphs via keepsake glasses available at Paddle8.com.

Paddle8 (Paddle8.com) is the premier online art marketplace founded by Aditya Julka and Alexander Gilkes, working with a curated selection of the world's most respected galleries, art fairs, foundations and museums to expand their global reach and to provide its substantial collector community with a new point of access to fine works of art.

Alvorada Palace, Brasilia, 1958. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Gustavo Capenema Palace (interior), Rio de Janeiro, 1943. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Honestino Guimarães National Museum, Brasilia, 1960. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Cathedral of Brasilia (Interior), Brasilia, 1958. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Itamaraty Palace (Ministry of External Relations), Brasilia, 1962. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Niteroi, 1991. Photography by Vicente de Paulo. Courtesy of Paddle8.

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Oscar NIEMEYER

Oscar Niemeyer was born in 1907 in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there. Niemeyer’s architecture, conceived as lyrical sculpture, expands on the principles and innovations of Le Corbusier to become a kind of free-form sculpture.

In 1938-39 he designed the Brazilian Pavilion for the New York World’s Fair in collaboration with Lucio Costa. His celebrated career began to blossom with his involvement with the Ministry of Education and Health (1945) in Rio de Janeiro. Niemeyer’s mentor, Lucio Costa, architect, urban planner, and renowned pioneer of Modern architecture in Brazil, led a group of young architects who collaborated with Le Corbusier to design the building which became a landmark of modern Brazilian architecture. It was while Niemeyer was working on this project that he met the mayor of Brazil's wealthiest state, Juscelino Kubitschek, who would later become President of Brazil. As President, he appointed Niemeyer in 1956 to be the chief architect of Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, his designs complementing Lucio Costa’s overall plans. The designs for many buildings in Brasilia would occupy much of his time for many years.

"As an architect," he states, "my concern in Brasilia was to find a structural solution that would characterize the city's architecture. So I did my very best in the structures, trying to make them different with their columns narrow, so narrow that the palaces would seem to barely touch the ground. And I set them apart from the facades, creating an empty space through which, as I bent over my work table, I could see myself walking, imagining their forms and the different resulting points of view they would provoke.

Internationally, he collaborated with Le Corbusier again on the design for the United Nations Headquarters (1947-53) in New York, contributing significantly to the siting and final design of the buildings. His own residence (1953) in Rio de Janeiro has become a landmark. In the 1950s, he designed an Aeronautical Research Center near Sao Paulo. In Europe, he undertook an office building for Renault and the Communist Party Headquarters (1965) both in Paris, a cultural centre for Le Havre (1972), and in Italy, the Mondadori Editorial Office (1968) in Milan and the FATA Office Building (1979) in Turin. In Algiers, he designed the Zoological Gardens, the University of Constantine, and the Foreign Office.