Oscar Niemeyer was hospitalized on Sunday

Rio de Janeiro - The renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday with a urinary tract infection. This was reported by the AFP agency, citing hospital sources.
    "Niemeyer was hospitalized on Sunday afternoon due to a urinary tract infection. He is currently undergoing tests. He is conscious, his condition is stable, but the hospital has not yet set a date for his discharge," said a representative of the Samaritano hospital in the southern part of the city.
    Last September, the 102-year-old architect spent three weeks in the same hospital. He underwent two operations due to severe abdominal pain. During one procedure, his gallbladder was removed, and a week later, a tumor in his colon was operated on.
    Niemeyer is known worldwide for, among other things, his futuristic buildings in the Brazilian capital, which was ceremoniously opened exactly half a century ago. However, he was absent from the monumental celebrations in Brasília last week, as he explained that problems with his spine prevented him from traveling by plane. And traveling by car would be too long (the two cities are 1200 kilometers apart).
    Oscar Niemeyer was born on December 15, 1907, in Rio. He has over 600 architectural projects to his name around the world – including the famous sambadrome in Rio, and he also contributed to the UN building in New York. His style is characterized by curves as a tribute to "the body of the Brazilian woman."