Ruy Ohtake is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Ruy Ohtake as Brazilian architect (1938–2021).
Ruy Ohtake was born at São Paulo in 1938. 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, painter and designer.
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.
Ruy Ohtake died in 2021, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
