He had met the architect Oscar Niemeyer, whose undulating work in Brasilia he has long admired.

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There is no higher symbol of this than fabled architect Oscar Niemeyer's buildings, which manage to be both angular yet still in harmony with nature.

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The chunkier concrete forms of their buildings mixed with the curvilinear buildings of Oscar Niemeyer, and gradually this helped to improve how the city looked and worked.

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Her marriage to neurosurgeon Paulo Niemeyer, nephew of Brazil's legendary late architect Oscar Niemeyer, and subsequent move to Rio cut her off from her landscaping clients, but Niemeyer wasn't one to stay home.

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