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| name = Bruno Dias Souza<br />
| image = Architect Bruno Dias Souza, Goa -5.jpg<br />
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| alt = At his Altinho, Panjim, residence.<br />
| caption = Bruno, in October 2020, completing 95.<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1925|10|06}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Goa]], India<br />
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| other_names = Bruno Souza<br />
| alma_mater = Columbia (B.Arch, 1955), Harvard (M.Arch, 1957)<br />
| spouse = Edna Miranda Souza<br />
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| children = 4<br />
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| awards = Sócio Honorário -- Ordem dos Arquitectos (Portugal)<br />
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| significant_buildings = Government Primary Schools in Portuguese Goa; Community Hall at Sto. Estevam (Goa), Cine Alankar at Mapusa Goa, Sesa Goa Head Office at Panjim; first prize at Goa High Court Contest, second prize at Goa Assembly Building Competition, Junior Staff Quarters Embassy of Brazil at New Delhi, Indian Social Institute at New Delhi, Okhla Parish Church at New Delhi, Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta, Education Development Centre (UNESCO), Maldives.<br />
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'''Bruno Dias Souza''' (born 6 October 1925) is a [[Goan]]-born architect credited with having "belonged to a generation of architects that sought to rediscover what Modern architecture meant for India"<ref name="CEPT">{{Cite web|title=Digital Archives of Goan Architect, Bruno Souza - Archives|url=https://cept.ac.in/archives/news/digital-archives-of-goan-architect-bruno-souza|access-date=2020-10-05|website=cept.ac.in}}</ref> and having had an "illustrious architectural career".<ref name="CEPT" /><br />
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==Contemporaries==<br />
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His contemporaries were [[Charles Correa]] and [[Raj Rewal]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Souza was educated at Columbia and Harvard. He spent his early years as a young professor and practitioner at the prominent [[School of Planning and Architecture]] (SPA), in [[New Delhi]]. He also served as a [[United Nations]] consultant, won the national competition for the [[Goa High Court]], besides receiving a special honor from the Government of Portugal.<br />
His acclaimed works include [[Okhla]] Parish Church and [[Loretto Convent]] in [[New Delhi]], his own house [[Altinho]] in [[Panjim]], [[Goa]], the [[Goa Assembly]], and other [[World Bank]]-[[UNESCO]] projects.<br />
Souza has worked on projects in Sudan, Vietnam, Liberia, Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Guinea.<ref name="Lisa">{{Cite web|date=September 11, 2016|first=Lisa|last=Monteiro|title=For this architect, environment comes first|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/For-this-architect-environment-comes-first/articleshow/54271329.cms|access-date=2020-10-05|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> He served as the Director of the School of Planning and Architecture from 1983 to 1988.<ref name="Lisa" /> <br />
In Goa, Souza has been critical of bureaucratic functioning and corruption in the system, where he won two competitions but was edged out of the same.<ref name="Lisa" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Bruno Dias Souza vs. State of Goa|url=http://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=319002981100|access-date=2020-10-05|website=www.the-laws.com}}</ref><br />
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==Collections archived==<br />
The [[Ahmedabad]]-based [[CEPT University]] Archives has undertaken the archiving of Souza's collections digitally and also through Oral History Recordings. This archive will include hand drawings, photographs, magazine articles and other related material from architect Souza's work.<br />
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==Early years==<br />
Souza is known to have grown up in the Goa village of [[Badem]], [[Salvador do Mundo]], and building models of boats and little houses as a child.<ref name="Lisa" /> <br />
He was educated at the ''Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque'' in the then Portuguese-ruled [[Goa]]. He moved to Dharwad and Bombay for inter-science and a stint in mathematics and physics as part of the B.Sc. programme at St Xavier's College.<ref name="Lisa" /> <br />
After his undergraduation and postgraduation in the United States, he worked for international firms in Central as well as South America—including in [[Brasilia]], [[Brasil]], before returning to Goa. In Goa, still under [[Portugal|Portuguese]] rule, he designed government primary and secondary schools.<ref name="Lisa" /><br />
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==Views on the Goan capital==<br />
Souza has argued that the Goan capital of Panjim is "forgetting its past by trying to redesign open spaces." He has argued that the scenic capital "was a space of parks...."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Panjim is forgetting its past|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/m/details.php?n_id=118427|access-date=2020-10-05|website=oHeraldo}}</ref><br />
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