WHO IS PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA?

Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect and urbanist. He was born in October 25th, 1928 in Vitória, Brazil. He won the Mies van der Rohe awar in 2001 and in 2006 he won the Pritzker Prize; he is one of the most representative architects of the Brazilian Paulista School, also known as "Paulista Brutalism" that utilizes more geometric lines, rougher finishes and bulkier massing than other Brazilian Modernists such as Oscar Niemeyer. He has been producing buildings since 1957, many of them were built in concrete, and most of them are located in São Paulo, Brazil.

His Home

In 1964 Mendes da Rocha designed his own house , built in the Butanta neighborhood of São Paulo , and it was finished in 1967.

The building is designed with the idea of ​​prefabrication , with a modular structure to adapt to future changes and it’s built with concrete.