AS THE WAR in Europe ended, Zalszupin moved from Bucharest to Prague to Paris; his first job was working on the reconstruction of the port in Dunkirk, France. Conditions were terrible. In 1949, he arrived in Rio de Janeiro with $500, a suitcase full of French perfume that he planned to sell until he found work and a calling card for Lucjan Korngold, a fellow Polish Jew who’d fled to Brazil during the war and established his own architecture firm in São Paulo. From 1950 to 1958, Zalszupin worked with the older architect on structures largely defined by their hard angles and muscular volumes. He brought those ideas to his own São Paulo-based practice, Prumo, which he ran with José Gugliotta until 1986.

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Persons: Zalszupin, ”, “, he’d, Brazil’s, Korngold, who’d, José Gugliotta Organizations: AS THE, Paulo Locations: Europe, Bucharest, Prague, Paris, Dunkirk, France, Rio de Janeiro, Polish, Brazil, São Paulo