Affonso Eduardo Reidy

(b Paris, 26 Oct 1909; d Rio de Janeiro, 10 Aug 1964). Brazilian architect and teacher, of French birth. He graduated in architecture in 1930 from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro. From 1929 to 1930, while still a student, he worked as assistant to Donat-Alfred Agache, who was drawing up the master-plan for Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil. After graduating, Reidy joined the public works department of the Prefecture of the Federal District in Rio, where he met Carmen Portinho (b 1906), the third woman to graduate in civil engineering in Brazil and one of the first in the world; she became his closest collaborator and worked on many aspects of his projects. Reidy was directly involved with the development of modern architecture in Brazil. In 1931 he was appointed assistant to Gregori Warchavchik, pioneer of modernism in Brazil, when Warchavchik became Professor of Architectural Composition at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes during L?cio Costa's directorship and reforms (1930-31) introducing modernist teachers. Reidy continued to teach there and became Professor of Design (1937) and Professor of Urban Planning (1954).

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