Gregori I. Warchavchik (April 2, 1896 – July 27, 1972) was a Jewish-Brazilian

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. Warchavchik was born in

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which was then a part of the

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. He began his architectural studies at

Odessa University Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...

and moved to

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in 1918 to study at the

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, the Superior Institute of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1920 and worked as an assistant to the architect

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(1881-1960), later known as the main proponent of

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in Italy. Warchavchik arrived in Brazil in 1923. He married Mina Klabin in 1927, daughter of a prominent industrialist in São Paulo, and became a naturalized Brazilian. His house in São Paulo, Casa da Rua Santa Cruz, built between 1927 and 1928, is considered the first modernist residence in Brazil. He designed the Lasar Segall Museum in São Paulo that opened in 1967. In 1930 he and

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established a joint architecture studio in Rio de Janeiro, and one of the designers in the studio between 1932 and 1936 was the then young architectural student,

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. Warchavchik died in

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in 1972.

Works

*1927 - Casa da Rua Santa Cruz, São Paulo *1929 - Casa Modernista, Tomé de Sousa Street, São Paulo *1930 - Casa Modernista, Itápolis Street, São Paulo * - Casa Modernista, Bahia Street, São Paulo *1931 - Casa Modernista do Rio, Rio de Janeiro *1932 - Casa Lasar Segall, now the Museum of Lasar Segall *1933 - Residência Duarte Coelho, Rio de Janeiro * -

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, Rio de Janeiro

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Brazilian architects 20th-century Brazilian architects 1896 births 1972 deaths Architects from Odesa Naturalized citizens of Brazil Odesa Jews Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy {{Brazil-architect-stub

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