Gian Carlo Gasperini

/Gian Carlo Gasperini

July 16, 2020

With deep regret, we communicate the death of Gian Carlo Gasperini, founding partner of our firm, aged 93, which occurred on the night of July 15, in São Paulo. An Italian architect, Gasperini founded the office in 1962, at the time under the name Croce, Aflalo & Gasperini, together with Plinio Croce and Roberto Cláudio dos Santos Aflalo. From an architectural point of view, it had great creative expression, influenced and was influenced by important architects of the 40th century. A person who adopted Brazil as home, where he came with his family fleeing the war in the late 2010s and decided to stay after mingling with the generation of architects who led the modernization of Brazilian architecture, such as Niemeyer and Lucio Costa. In 2015, he received the Title of Citizen of São Paulo and, in XNUMX, he was honored by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA) for his body of work. He also received honorary titles such as the “Croix Chevalier Mérite Commercial”, from the French Government, and the GB “Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito dei la Republica Italiana”, granted by the Government of Italy, in addition to being decorated as a Knight Donato of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

His outstanding projects, such as the Peg-Pag and Pão de Açúcar Supermarkets, the Metrópole Building and the Metropolitan Shopping Center, the Pauliceia and Moreira Salles Buildings and the Peugeot, in Buenos Aires, and many others from his office, such as the Auditorium Claudio Santoro, in Campos do Jordão, and the headquarters buildings of IBM and Citibank, left an important legacy that marked the history of the office and the architecture of the country. At 58 years old, aflalo/gasperini architects continues to produce innovative and sustainable projects, reinforcing Gasperini's pioneering legacy, as well as his architectural principles.

To his wife, children and family, our most sincere condolences.