Carlos Leão

Result of a profound research coordinated by Jorge Czajkowski (Belo Horizonte 1948-Rio de Janeiro 2010) and his collaboration team since the mid-1980's, this book recovers the professional trajectory of architect Carlos Leão (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1906-1983). From valuable material, including drawings, blueprints and photographs, the edition features more than 40 projects, among them some iconic, like the building of the Ministério da Educação e Saúde, in which he worked alongside names like Lucio Costa, Jorge Machado Moreira and Oscar Niemeyer, reaffirming his unique position in the history of Brazilian architecture. Carlos Leão, a carioca, also known for his drawings of female nudes, that illustrated the books of Vinicius de Moraes and Carlos Drummond de Andrade with sensuality and beauty, transferred his poetic sinuous curves to straight and concrete lines of the modernist architecture, in sketches and technical drawings of pure singularity.The volume is the outcome of the research on the architect, a part of a larger project also conceived and coordinated by Jorge Czajkowski "O nativismo carioca: uma arquitetura entre a tradição e a modernidade" (The carioca nativism: an architecture between tradition and modernity).