I write a text to go with them (the drawings) and read it back to make sure it makes sense, common sense. If not, I have another argument with myself, and produce a new drawing. When this reads clearly and simply, there you have the building. This is it. Nothing more. Oscar Niemeyer
Regardless of scale, urban or architectonic, Oscar Niemeyer always justified his projects in the same way: text and sketches.
These sketches, quickly drawn by the architect himself, were supposed to be didactic, an easy way to understand a concept or a certain tectonic detail.
Generally, they would come in two, the chosen solution and the supposed wrong one with a big X on top of it.
By degrading the ordinary, the banal, the repetitive, the irregular and whatever blocks a view, Niemeyer reinforced his authorship for unusual forms, spatial generosity and transparency.
This is a small collection of situations that Oscar Niemeyer dislikes and experiments with possibilities he once discarded.