Affonso Eduardo Reidy

Affonso Eduardo Reidy
Born	(1909-10-26)26 October 1909 Paris, France
Died	10 August 1964(1964-08-10) (aged 54) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Affonso Reidy
Buildings	Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, 1954-1960 (destroyed by fire, 1978; reconstructed by Henrique Mindlin).
Projects	Pedregulho Housing Development, Rio de Janeiro. 1947-1955 Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro. 1936+ with Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Jorge Moreira, Ernani Vasconcelos and Carlos Leao; Le Corbusier, Consultant.

Affonso Eduardo Reidy (Paris, 26 October 1909 - Rio de Janeiro, 10 August 1964) was a Brazilian architect. He was the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Reidy entered the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro at age 17. He apprenticed with the French urban planner Alfred Agache (1875-1959) during his studies. Reidy graduated and became an architect in 1930. Lúcio Costa appointed him as a teaching assistant to the architect Gregori Warchavchik (1896-1972) at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in the same year.^[1]

Projects

Projects by Affonso Reidy include:

• Pedregulho Housing Complex — Benfica neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
• Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro — landscape design by Roberto Burle Marx.
• Carmen Miranda Museum - located in the Parque Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes (Flamengo Park)
• Ministry of Education and Health Building (Gustavo Capanema Palace, Rio de Janeiro) — with Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Jorge Moreira, Ernani Vasconcelos. and Carlos Leao.

See also

• Brazilian architects
• Modernist architecture in Brazil

References