Octávio Moraes is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Octávio Moraes as Brazilian association football player and architect (1923-2009).
Octávio Moraes was born at Belém in 1923. 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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Octávio Moraes died in 2009, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
