Affonso Junior Risi
Born in Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. A graduate of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University Mackenzie (1972), Brazil, where he taught in the 80s. He teaches courses in Architecture and Urbanism of ICET-UNIP, São Paulo University, since 1992 and the House of Knowledge, São Paulo, from 2008.
Developed projects in partnership with Risi Iolanda Akamine (died 1982), Jose Mario Nogueira, Jose Borelli Neto, Edson Elito, Leo Tomchinsky and Reinaldo Cabral.
It works published and exhibited in Brazil and abroad.
Received awards RINO LEVI IAB-SP (Institute of Architects of Brazil) and the 2nd and 6th BIAs (International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paulo).
Responsible for architectural services for the conservation and renovation of the Monastery of São Bento in São Paulo since 1990, led the work on adapting the building for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.
Music studies in parallel with those of architecture, led to great interest in the issue of composition, especially the employment of so-called symbolic geometry, especially the Golden Proportion, this regulator in tracing the various projects presented here.
