João Filgueiras Lima practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists João Filgueiras Lima as Brazilian architect (1931-2014).
João Filgueiras Lima was born at Rio de Janeiro in 1932. His recorded nationality is Brazil.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and painter.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Brazil shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
João Filgueiras Lima died in 2014, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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