Life's a Beach: Oscar Niemeyer, Landscape and Women
The Rest is Noise Festival
South Bank, London 6 October 2013
Review of Mapping London
Architectural Research Quarterly 2010
Arquivo Brasília
Sala Martins Penna
Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
Brasília
19-20 April 2005
Brasília
Canberra / Brasília
Canberra Contemporary Art Space [Canberra: CASC 2001]
Herzog & deMeuron
Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 3 no. 2 [University of East London 1994]
Oscar Niemeyer: House in Canoas, Rio de Janeiro
photograph © Thomas Deckker 1997
Life's a Beach: Oscar Niemeyer, Landscape and Women
The Rest is Noise Festival
South Bank, London 6 October 2013
Thomas Deckker discussed beaches and female bathers as generative ideas in Niemeyer's architecture.
Oscar Niemeyer: Sketch of Female bathers
Click here to go to
South Bank website.
The event was based on the book
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. Alex Ross is music critic for
The New Yorker magazine.
My appreciation of a contemporary composer, Iannis Xenakis, appears in my
Critical Commentaries.