Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was widely considered Brazil s greatest living architect and who won some of architecture s most prestigious awards, died Sunday in Sao Paulo, his family announced.
He was 92. No cause of death was given.
Da Rocha was one of the biggest names in Brazilian and worldwide architecture , though most of his work was done in Sao Paulo, said the ArchDaily website.
Brazil s Council of Architecture and Urbanism said he would be remembered as an audacious iconoclast .
A leader of Brazil s brutalist and modernist Paulista school, which emphasised geometric lines, bulky masses and rough finishes, da Rocha won the 2006 Pritzker Prize, considered architecture s closest equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
The architect, urban planner and teacher passed away on Sunday (May 23) in Sao Paulo. He had been ill with lung cancer, the Council of Architecture and
The Vitória-born architect died at a hospital in São Paulo on 23 May 2021 from lung cancer.
To mark Mendes da Rocha s passing, here are eight key projects he completed during his career:
Athletic Club of São Paulo, Brazil, 1957
Mendes da Rocha first rose to prominence with his design for the Paulistano Athletic Club Gymnasium in São Paulo, which he completed at the age of 29 after winning a national competition for the construction of the project.
The brutalist stadium has a striking circular form with six concrete fins that jut out and support a circular concrete roof held by 12 tension steel cables.
2021-05-19 01:06:43 GMT2021-05-19 09:06:43(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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