Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil's surprisingly easy. Thin and tall pillars arches, the length of which is doubled by reflection in the water, seem almost disembodied. Although it relies on them multiton concrete roof, protecting from the sun's interior glass building. The author of this project, Oscar Niemeyer, December 15, marks 100 years. Explore the creation of live classics and one of the main architects of the xx century it will be possible to exhibition "Poetry Forms", organized in honor of the anniversary of the master fund "Russian Avant-Garde" at the Moscow Museum of Architecture. It will present photographs, drawings and models Niemeyer from the 1940's to date. Including what has been made it to Brasilia, the new capital of his native country – the designer of Niemeyer began at age 50.

A general plan of the city, he worked out in detail the administrative part of the ensemble to the residence of the president's palace Dawn, the building houses the National Congress, the government "Palace of the plateau, the cathedral and other projects. Today they are all recognized as historic monuments. Critics called the style Niemeyer emotional or a romantic modernism for the use of a large number of curved shapes. He has been working with concrete, as if with clay, and deprives him of massiveness, resulting in a plastic building, then drop down like flowers, similar to the frozen streams of water. In this concise form, peculiar to modernism, is preserved. December 18 – February 1, Museum of Architecture. Str. 5, tel. 291 21 09