Joaquim Guedes
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He inaugurated his practice in São Paulo in 1955 and worked on over 400 projects. He is best known for his single-family houses and urban projects, among them the new town of Caraíba in the State of Bahia, Brazil.
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- Junqueira, M. Joaquim Guedes. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2000.
- Brazil's Modern Architecture, Edited by Elisabetta Andreoli and Adrian Fort. London: Phaidon Press, 2004.