Joăo Filgueiras Lima (nicknamed Lelé) is Oscar Niemeyer’s complement as a builder with an artistic but nevertheless highly constructive sensitivity. His architecture is a wonderful embodiment of the personal manner in which Lima merged and moulded the programmatic, economic and rational challenges of the modern social world in Brazil.
Joăo Filgueiras Lima (nicknamed Lelé) is Oscar Niemeyer’s complement as a builder with an artistic but nevertheless highly constructive sensitivity. His architecture is a wonderful embodiment of the personal manner in which Lima merged and moulded the programmatic, economic and rational challenges of the modern social world in Brazil.