Héctor Vigliecca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Héctor Vigliecca

Brazilian artist

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1940

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: architect, painter, university teacher

Nationality: Uruguay, Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Héctor Vigliecca (Montevideo, 16 October 1940) is an architect and urban planner naturalized Brazilian.
He collects a vast production of work that includes social housing projects, arenas multi-use and buildings in the cultural, educational and institutional realm as well as large-scale urban projects.
He is the founder of the architecture office Vigliecca & Associados established in São Paulo.
Among the prominent projects are OUC Mooca-Vila Carioca (Tamanduateí Neighborhoods), integrated studies in the area of 1.600 ha in São Paulo (SP), Castelão Arena, one of the venues of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Deodoro Olympic Park, the largest Olympic area of the Rio-2016, and Parque Novo Santo Amaro V, social housing project reference; Vigliecca is known due to participation in national and international competitions, which resulted in 50 prizes and inspired the book “Hypotheses on Reality” (2012), gathering public competition projects designed between 1971 and 2011.
He is also the author of "The Third Territory - Collective Housing and City (2014)" and one of the authors of "Arena Castelão - Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo (2014)" about Arena Castelão.