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Adolpho Lindenberg

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Adolpho Lindenberg (3 June 1924 – 2 May 2024) was a Brazilian civil engineer, architect, writer and political activist. A cousin and disciple of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, the founder of Tradition, Family and Property, he was the president of the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute, from its creation in 2006 until his death, in 2024.

Adolho Lindenberg in his house.

Early life and professional career

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Lindenberg Building entrance.
"Conde d'Eu" house. Named in honor ofGaston, Count of Eu, Count of the Brazilian Empire.

Grandson of engineer Ludwig Linderberg, a German immigrant who settled in Brazil in 1818 and son of Eponina Ribeiro dos Santos, from a traditional family of the 15th century, and of Adolpho Carlos, a doctor and the first full professor of dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo, Adolpho Lindenberg was born in São Paulo on 3 June 1924. He graduated in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in 1949.[citation needed]

A medal made in honor of his father.

He started his own enterprise, the Adolpho Lindenberg Construction Company (Portuguese: Construtora Adolpho Lindenberg) or CAL, in 1952, which became in short time, one of the most admired in Brazil. CAL name is associated with the reintroduction of the colonial style in Brazilian contemporary architecture. His style left a mark in many buildings of São Paulo. Since the 1950s, he created many buildings in the colonial style, because he believed it to be more suitable to Brazilian climate and culture than the Bauhaus style. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he authored many buildings in neoclassical or mediterranean style, with great success in the real estate market, to the point that about 60% of the luxury buildings in São Paulo from that time follow this style. His neoclassical style was named "Lindenberg style".[1]

Activist career

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Adolpho Lindenberg
Born(1924-06-03)3 June 1924
São Paulo, Brazil
Died2 May 2024(2024-05-02) (aged 99)
São Paulo, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
EducationMackenzie Presbyterian University
Occupation(s)Civil engineer, architect, writer, political activist
OrganizationsTradition, Family and Property
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute
Known forFounder of Construtora Adolpho Lindenberg (CAL)
President of the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute
Notable workReintroduction of colonial and neoclassical styles in Brazilian architecture
Adolpho with Dr. Plinio de Oliveira and TFP members.

Lindenberg was a longtime member of Tradition, Family and Property, being a collaborator of their newspaper O Legionário, and later an editor of the newspaper, currently magazine, Catolicismo.[2] After the division and legal dispute that followed Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira's death, in 1995, he was a member of the Association of the Founders of TFP. After their judicial loss in 2004, they went to create the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute, in 2006, of which he was the president from then on.[3] He identified with the Catholic Traditionalists and has been linked to the far-right movement in Brazil, 32 days before his 100th birthday.[4]


Death

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Lindenberg died in São Paulo on 2 May 2024, at the age of 99.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Normatizações, Controle e Disciplina: A TFP enquanto Instituição Total (1960-1995), Dra.Gizele Zanotto, XXVI Simpósio Nacional de História, ANPUH, São Paulo, July 2011 (Portuguese)
  2. ^ Dissertação em pós-graduação em História: "Cruzados do Século XX. O Movimento Tradição, Família e Propriedade (TFP): origens, doutrinas e práticas (1960-1970)" Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Filipe Francisco Neves Domingues da Silva, UFPE, 2009. Pg.49
  3. ^ "O conservadorismo católico na política brasileira: considerações sobre as atividades da TFP ontem e hoje", Dr.Marcos Paulo dos Reis Quadros, PUC-RS, Revista "Estudos de Sociologia". Araraquara v.18 n.34, jan.-jun. 2013, pg.203
  4. ^ Benjamin Arthur Cowan (29 November 2018). "A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right". Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 61 (2). University of California, San Diego, Department of History. doi:10.1590/0034-7329201800204. S2CID 158744711.
  5. ^ "Morre aos 99 anos o engenheiro e arquiteto Adolpho Lindenberg, ícone do mercado imobiliário paulista". Terra. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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