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Pancho Guedes (Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes) was born on 13 May, 1925 in Lisbon, Portugal, is a Portuguese artist and architect (1925–2015). Discover Pancho Guedes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?
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Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes |
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Architect |
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90 years old |
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Taurus |
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13 May, 1925 |
Birthday |
13 May |
Birthplace |
Lisbon, Portugal |
Date of death |
7 November, 2015 |
Died Place |
Graaff-Reinet, South Africa |
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Portugal
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Pancho Guedes Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Pancho Guedes's Wife?
His wife is Dorothy Guedes
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Pancho Guedes Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Pancho Guedes worth at the age of 90 years old? Pancho Guedes’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from Portugal. We have estimated Pancho Guedes's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda "Pancho" Guedes (Lisbon, Portugal, 13 May 1925 – Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, 7 November 2015) was a Portuguese architect, sculptor, painter, and educator.
He is described as one of the earliest post-modernist architects in Africa and an archetype Eclectic Modernist.
Guedes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1925.
He is a descendant of Portuguese nobleman Luis de Alpoim.
Guedes spent much of his life in Portuguese Mozambique from the age of 7 years old and he would stay there for most of his life.
Wanting to become an artist, he enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1945.
He soon decided to study architecture which was to him the culmination and combination of all the artistic trades that interested him.
Guedes bought works by Paul Klee in 1948, admiring his surrealist style and infantile themes.
He made sculptures inspired by Paul Klee's Angels at the end of his career.
Guedes then began his career and produced a multitude of projects in the 1950s and 60s as building activity intensified in Mozambique.
In East Africa he produced the designs for hundreds of buildings, many of them in the city of Lourenço Marques (Maputo) but also in Angola, in South Africa, and in Portugal.
His creations mixed the sculptural and figurative with practical requirements and traditional local identity.
Guedes was part of “Team 10”, a group of architects who assembled in July 1953 at the 9th Congress of CIAM and adopted a new approach to urbanism through impactful theoretical frameworks which influenced the development of European architectural thought during the late 20th century.
Arguably, one of Guedes' most famous buildings is the Smiling Lion Building from 1956 built in Mozambique.
Guedes calls the style of this building STILOGUEDES which translates loosely as 'GuedesStyle'.
The high level mural on the West façade is still intact and so is the "smiling lion" on the North corner.
The lion is a small concrete casting with a smile hence the name of the building.
Aside from his large-scale architectural projects, he was also a sculptor and painter.
Exhibitions of his visual art have taken place at the Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon, among other venues.
After the events of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, he left newly independent Mozambique in 1974.
His rapid departure from Mozambique in 1974 along with other Portuguese subject to the 24/20 declaration (giving them 24 hours to leave and allowing them to take 20 kilograms of belongings) left his family almost penniless.
Due to his reputation, he received an invitation to take the vacant chair of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Mozambique was officially established in 1975 as the People's Republic of Mozambique.
One of his last sketches, made in 2015, was entitled 'A Tribute to Paul Klee'.
Pancho Guedes died on 7 November 2015 at the age of 90.