In the last years of his life, Niemeyer wrote an enigmatic dedication in his unmistakable handwriting.

• Book by Oscar Niemeyer – Houses where I lived, with a dedication from Oscar Niemeyer to Carlos Henrique.
• 20.5 cm × 21 cm × 1 cm.
• Dated between 2004 and 2012, with no information about the location.
• Good condition, with some light stains on the dedication page, which do not affect the text.
• Unique piece.

Oscar Niemeyer – Houses Where I Lived is a book published in 2004 by Revan publishing house, in which the architect presents, in an illustrated and commented way, the main houses where he lived throughout his life. The work brings together projects, photographs and short texts in which Niemeyer describes architectural aspects of the residences, their locations, the contexts in which they were built and the daily life lived in each of them. Among the highlighted houses are his first residence in Rio de Janeiro, his house in São Conrado and the apartment in Paris during his exile. The book also records his ideas on architecture, always emphasizing integration with nature, curved forms and the simplicity of spaces.

On the first page, there is a pasted photograph showing a modernist residential building, possibly included by Niemeyer or someone close to him, adding a unique and personal visual element to the book. Above this image appears part of the signature "Oscar," written in large, bold letters, as if the signature alone were sufficient. Following this, he proceeds to write a text which, as in many of his manuscripts throughout his life, is practically illegible, a characteristic that intensified with age. Considering that the book * Casas onde mori* (Houses Where I Lived) was published in 2004 and observing the shaky handwriting and the difficulty in reading it, it is evident that Niemeyer was already quite old when he wrote this dedication.

Sometimes, what makes an autograph from a great personality valuable is not its content, but the form it takes. Here, we can't understand what's written—geniuses aren't always understood—and that doesn't diminish the interest of this long dedication, nor the value of this signature in a hard-to-find book.