Affonso Eduardo Reidy (1909–1964) was a Brazilian modernist architect who shaped some of Rio de Janeiro's best-known public buildings and spaces. The son of an English father and a Brazilian mother, he entered the National School of Fine Arts in Rio at 17, and qualified as an architect in 1930, when Lúcio Costa appointed him teaching assistant to Gregori Warchavchik. He was one of the team, with Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and others, that designed the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio. He worked closely with the engineer Carmen Portinho, his partner, and with the landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx.
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The Pedregulho Housing complex (c. 1955), planned in 1946 for lower-paid city employees, stands on the hill that gives it its name and draws on the ideas of Le Corbusier. The Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (1967) is a concrete building whose row of external frames, linked by long beams, leaves a gallery floor free of columns. Flamengo Park (1965), which he conceived and designed with gardens by Burle Marx, is the largest public park in Rio and the largest urban seaside park in the world.
