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As part of our ongoing 2021 review, Dezeen remembers the architects and designers who passed away this year, including Virgil Abloh and Art Gensler. ....
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 ....
Remembering Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021) Remembering Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021) Paulo Mendes da Rocha – one of Brazil’s most important architects and one of the world’s last great modernists – has passed away in Sao Paulo at the age of 92 Paulo Mendes da Rocha, photographed in 2010 for Wallpaper . Photography: Carol Sachs Paulo Mendes da Rocha, one of the world’s last great modernists, as well as one of his country’s most important architects to-date, has passed in Brazil at the age of 92. Blending beautiful, powerful architectural forms while looking at issues of social engagement, Mendes da Rocha turned his hand to anything from private housing, large-scale, public architecture and furniture; always with a profound sense of materiality, and a flair for creating architecture that is both functional and emotive, defined by bold yet sensitive moves. The architect has spoken about architecture’s impact on the socio-geographic map ....
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. ....