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Corrêa Lima, Attilio
(b Rome, 8 April 1901; d Rio de Janeiro, 27 Aug 1943). Brazilian architect of Italian birth. He graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, with a prize that enabled him to study urban planning at the University of Paris; his final thesis, a plan of the city of Niterói, Brazil, was published as an award. In 1931 Corrêa Lima returned to Brazil. He established and held the Chair of Urban Planning at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the time of Lúcio Costa’s reforms there (1930–31), when Modernist teachers were introduced, and he established an office with Paulo Antunes Ribeiro, who had also studied urban planning in Paris; together they drew up a master plan (1933) for the city of Goiânia, the new capital of the state of Goiás, where Corrêa Lima also designed some public buildings. Shortly afterwards the partnership broke up, and Corrêa Lima went to work as an architect for the Instituto de Aposentadoria e Pensões dos Industriários (IAPI). As well as his urban planning work, he produced some outstanding house designs, such as that in Rio (1933) for his father, José Octávio Corrêa Lima (1878–1974), a sculpture teacher, which contained a large sculpture studio on the ground-floor. He also worked on landscaping projects, being one of the first to integrate tropical and subtropical plants in private and public gardens, and he won national and international fame for his seaplane station (1938) at Santos Dumont airport, Rio de Janeiro, a simple, clear building on two levels connected by a spiral staircase. Although strongly influenced by Le Corbusier, Corrêa Lima’s buildings also foreshadow the work of Oscar Niemeyer at Pampulha (1942–4) in their free spatial organization and search for structural innovation. He was particularly notable for reinforcing the close link between architecture and urban planning, based on studies on the origin and development of Brazilian cities.
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