Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Paulo (Archias) Mendes da Rocha (* 25. October 1928 in Vitória , Espírito Santo , † 23. May 2021 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian architect of modernity . His work was initially shaped by Oscar Niemeyer and João Vilanova Artigas .
Life
Mendes da Rocha studied at the 1952 newly founded Mackenzie University in São Paulo . From 1954 he ran his architecture office in São Paulo. He became an influential proponent of the avant-garde movement in the city where he lived and where most of his buildings were erected in the 1950s. His geometrically strict concrete buildings stand out because of the complex, nested building sections and spatial sequences. In 2006 the value of his work was recognized with the Pritzker Prize .
His first building, the hall of Club Athletico Paulistano from 1958, a sculptural reinforced concrete construction, set the style for the architecture of São Paulo. He built the Brasileiro de Escultura Museum in 1988. He was one of the finalists in the competition to build the new Center Pompidou in Paris . In Poupatempo (Portuguese for “save time”), built in 1998 , he raised the concept of a citizens' office to the dimension of a metropolis. The 300 meter long light-flooded counter hall houses the finance and residents' registration office as well as a post office and a police station. The use of exposed concrete shaped the style of his geometrically designed buildings .
Major works
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- Club Athletico Paulistano (1958)
- Casa Comunista in São Paulo
- Mendes da Rocha residential building in São Paulo (designed from 1964, completed in 1966)
- Pacaembu House (1969)
- Estádio Serra Dourada (1973)
- Chapel of Saint Peter (Capela de São Pedro Apóstolo) in Campos do Jordão, State of São Paulo, Brazil (1987)
- Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - Brazilian Sculpture Museum in the city of São Paulo, Brazil (1988)
- Administration building "Poupatempo" in São Paulo (1998)
- Museu Nacional dos Coches in Lisbon (2013)
- SESC 24 de Maio , cultural and library center with swimming pool on the roof, São Paulo, together with the MMBB architectural office (2018)
honors and awards
- Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture (2000)
- Pritzker Prize (2006)
- Premium Imperiale (2016)
- León de Oro, Venice Biennale (2016)
- 2017 Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Quote from Paulo Mendes da Rocha
"Nature is a mess!"
literature
- Annette Spiro : Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Buildings and projects . 2nd edition, Niggli Verlag , Sulgen / Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-7212-0413-1 .
- Mendes da Rocha , GG Editorial Gustavo Gili 1997, ISBN 84-252-1682-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paulo Mendes da Rocha. In: arch INFORM .
- Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Laureate 2006. The Pritzker Architecture Prize (English)
- Poupatempo. Paulo Mendes da Rocha receives the Pritzker Prize. In: BauNetz , April 10, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ SOS brutalism. An international inventory . Park Books, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-03860-074-9 , pp. 169 .
- ↑ Igor Fracalossi: Clássicos da Arquitetura: Capela de São Pedro / Paulo Mendes da Rocha. In: ArchDaily Brasil, October 7, 2015 (Portuguese).
- ↑ 2nd Mies van der Rohe Award for Latin American Architecture. Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, accessed on January 29, 2019.
- ↑ RIBA Awards 2017 Royal Gold Medal to Paulo Mendes da Rocha. ArchDaily.com, accessed January 29, 2019.
- ↑ Luigi Snozzi : Long live the resistance! In: adreizehn 2014/2015. Yearbook of the Department of Architecture. University Press of the TU Berlin, Berlin 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendes da Rocha, Paulo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mendes da Rocha, Paulo Archidas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitória , Espírito Santo , Brazil |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 2021 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | São Paulo |