Eduardo Kneese de Mello

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The accommodations built for the Pan American Games in 1963 (today CRUSP student residence ) are the work of Kneese.

Eduardo Augusto Kneese de Mello (born April 5, 1906 in São Paulo , † 1994 ibid) was a Brazilian architect .

Mello was the son of Horácio de Mello and Clotilde Kneese de Mello. He received his architectural training at Mackenzie College , today the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie , with Cristiano Stockler das Neves .

Kneese taught at the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of the Universidade de São Paulo and was director of the Institute for Brazilian Studies at the same university (IEB – USP). In 1943 he co-founded the Paulist section of the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil and was its president several times. In the 1950s he was brought in by Oscar Niemeyer to help plan the Parque do Ibirapuera and Brasilias .

He died at the age of 88 in São Paulo, the exact date is not known.

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  1. ^ Eduardo Kneese de Mello in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural . Retrieved December 24, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).