The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha died on Sunday at 92. He had been hospitalized in São Paulo with lung cancer, according to Pedro Mendes da Rocha, one of his six children with the jewelry designer and architect Helene Afanasieff.
Beginning in 1957, with Paulistano Athletic Club, Mendes da Rocha completed dozens of public and private buildings in São Paulo, almost all of them in unadorned concrete. The style came to be known as Brazilian Brutalism.
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