Maria Deroche (21 July 1938 – 25 January 2023) was a Brazilian-born French architect.

Biography

Born in

São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...

on 21 July 1938, Deroche studied at the

Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo The Architecture and Urbanism College, University of São Paulo ( Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo'') (usually called FAU, or FAUUSP) is an architecture and design school in the University of São P ...

and graduated in 1963. She had studied alongside

brutalist Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the b ...

architects

Paulo Mendes da Rocha Paulo Mendes da Rocha (October 25, 1928 – May 23, 2021) was a Brazilian architect. Mendes da Rocha attended the Mackenzie Presbyterian University College of Architecture, graduating in 1954. Working almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Roch ...

and Vilanova Artigas. Deroche moved to France in 1963 and worked for

Bernard Zehrfuss Bernard Louis Zehrfuss (Angers, 20 October 1911 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 3 July 1996) was a French architect. Life He was born at Angers, into a family that had fled from the Alsace in 1870 after the Franco-Prussian War. Zehrfuss's father was kil ...

and , where she was directed by

Michel Andrault Michel Andrault (17 December 1926 – 5 April 2020) was a French architect. Biography Andrault was the son of a salesman and a seamstress. He was bedridden for two years due to tuberculosis. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux- ...

and . In 1971, she joined the , where she became a partner in 1977 alongside her husband, . The couple left in 1985 and co-founded the ''Atelier d'urbanisme et d'architecture Jean et Maria Deroche''. In 1990, she signed the ''Appel des 250'' calling for opposition to the rise of the National Front. Maria Deroche died on 25 January 2023, at the age of 84.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deroche, Maria 1938 births 2023 deaths French women architects University of São Paulo alumni Brazilian emigrants to France Designers from São Paulo