Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Organizaciones con obra

Colecção Fundação Ilídio Pinho - Arte Contemporanea Portuguesa

Museo de Vilafamés - Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (MACVAC)

Descripción del Artista

Born in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 1928, Mendes da Rocha graduated from the Architecture College of São Paulo’s Mackenzie University in 1954 and opened his own office the following year. He quickly became known as part of the so-called Paulista School; eschewing curves in favor of blocky, exposed concrete structures. He won the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2000 and the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest accolade, in 2006; in 2016, he was awarded the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, and the following year he won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal. In September of last year, he donated his nearly 9,000-piece archive relating to more than three hundred projects to Portugal’s Casa de Arquitectura. In 1958, at the age of twenty-nine, Mendes da Rocha completed one of his earliest and best known commissions, São Paulo’s Paulistano Athletic Club, characterized by its distinctive saucer shape. Other major projects in that city include the 1987 Chapel of Saint Peter, with its broad concrete columns and airy glass walls; the 1988 Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, notable for the massive raised concrete beam that shelters its exterior plaza; and the 1993 State Museum of São Paulo, embodying austere expanses of pale brick. With Jorge Caron, Júlio Katinsky and Ruy Otake, he designed the Brazilian Pavilion at Osaka, Japan’s Expo ’70.

Exposiciones en las que ha participado como artista

21º Bienal de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil: Comunidades imaginadas

Colectiva

Ocupação Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Individual

Experimentando Le Corbusier – Interpretações contemporâneas do modernismo

Colectiva

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