Oswaldo Corrêa Gonçalves

The book traces the trajectory of noted architect Oswaldo Corrêa Gonçalves (1917-2005), a multifaceted architect who stood out in all his areas of expertise, making projects of single and multifamily residences, sports buildings, schools and institutions, as is the case of the first units of the Sesc/Senac. He also served as an urban planner in the Plano Diretor de Santos, in Riviera de São Lourenço, in Bertioga, and in the housing village of Barra Bonita, in the State of São Paulo. With an important class, he collaborated in the creation of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Universidade de São Paulo (FAUUSP), was one of the main responsible for the opening of the FAU Santos and one of the founders of Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil in São Paulo (IAB-SP). Organized by architects Gino Caldatto Barbosa and Ruy Eduardo Debs Franco, the book presents the various roles assumed by a relatively forgotten figure, but of paramount importance, in the history of modern Brazilian architecture: a dedicated teacher, an intellectual questioner, a cultural manager and an active defender of the profession.