(b Curitiba, 23 June 1915; d São Paulo, 6 Jan 1985). Brazilian architect, teacher and writer. He graduated as an engineer–architect from the Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo (1937) and became a partner in the design and construction firm Marone & Artigas. In his earliest projects he sought to move away from the academic electicism that dominated São Paulo at the time, and his first projects were influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright; for example, the Rio Branco Paranhos house (1943) was clearly inspired by Wright’s prairie houses. In 1944 he opened his own design office in São Paulo; he was increasingly influenced by the rationalist modernism of Le Corbusier that began to spread from Rio de Janeiro and often used pilotis, brises-soleil and roof gardens at this time, as in the Louveira block of flats (1948) and the Mario Bittencourt house (1949), São Paulo, and the bus station (1950), Londrina.

• Artigas, João B(atista) Vilanova
  • Warchavchik, Gregori
  • works
    • Brazil, §IV, 2(ii): Architecture: Modernism, 1920–60
    • Brazil, §IV, 2(iii): Architecture, after 1960
    • São Paulo