He graduated Art Center in 1950 with a degree in Specialized Design but found himself employed at various Architectural offices.ĭiniz was hired in 1952 at the newly formed office of Viennese architect Victor Gruen. Along with his studies at Art Center, Diniz set about a self-education in Architecture. Upon his discharge, Diniz enrolled at Art Center College of Design, with the intent of pursuing his other passion, automotive design, but a week long trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Architecture School and the influence of an instructor that commissioned him to produce illustrations of a Case Study House to be published in Arts & Architecture led to another direction. As he was later to write, “It didn’t take long for the architectural splendors of Venice to work their magic on me and I took to sketching them in earnest.” His miniature guns, so perfectly scaled and complete that they could have fired, were the subject of a Los Angeles Times article in 1943.Įnlisting in the Army in 1946, Diniz was stationed in Italy. While a student at Beverly Hills High School, Diniz gained a local reputation for his expertise in constructing miniatures and models. When Diniz was 4 years old, his parents separated and his mother moved Carlos and his younger sister Nina to Beverly Hills, CA. Diniz was born during a stop over in Phoenix, Arizona as the family was relocating to California.
Alvaro Diniz was an Attache of the Brazilian Consulate. Diniz’s body of work encompasses many landmark and historic structures and developments the 1960’s through the 1980’s.Ĭarlos Diniz was the son of Alvaro Diniz of Recifi, Brazil and Elizabeth Merchant of Pennsylvania, USA. CARLOS DINIZ (den-EEZ) born October 15, 1928, Phoenix, Arizona, Died July 18, 2001Īmerican Architectural Illustrator, Artists and Graphic Designer, Diniz is known for his work with many Pritzker, Gold Medal and pioneering architects of the 20th century.