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Ruy Ohtake
1938
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Ruy Ohtake is a Brazilian architect and designer whose practice integrates built environment, furniture, and sculptural objects into a unified whole. Working across concrete, wood, and metal, his designs synthesize modernist geometry with organic forms drawn from Brazilian landscape and Japanese spatial principles. Since the postwar period, Ohtake has shaped institutional and residential commissions that dissolve boundaries between architecture and art.
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