[1] One may say that Oscar Niemeyer had a perspective 

on life completely different to that of many of those working 

elsewhere in modern architecture. He began life as a modernist, 

[4] but gradually forged an architectural style that was both unique 

and ahead of its time, a symbol of the colour and lust for life of 

his native Brazil. He once told a newspaper: ‘Mine is an 

[7] architecture of curves; the body of a woman, the sinuous rivers, 

the waves of the sea’.

Through his professional life, Niemeyer retained 

[10] defining traits of the Modernists. However, the Brazilian 

simply didn’t have the mass-production mindset natural to the 

European modernists, obsessed with finding ways of building 

[13] cheap housing for the multitudes. Niemeyer would ask ‘How 

can you repeat a house that has specific level curves, a certain 

light or a landscape? How can you build it over again?’ He 

[16] explained later: ‘It was not the imposition of the right angle 

which made me mad, but the obsessive concern of an 

architectonical purity, of structural logic, of the systematic 

[19] campaign against the free and creative shape.’ 

Gaynor Aaltonen. The history of architecture: iconic buildings throughout the ages. London: Arcturus, 2008, p. 615-621 (adapted)

Based on the text, judge the item.

The passage “One may say…architecture” (l. 1 to 3) can be correctly replaced by It is possible to confirm that Oscar Niemeyer’s take on life is totally different from many other modernist architects working in Brazil without this changing the meaning of the text.