He died in Caracas after leaving a legacy in the country with emblematic methods and works on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at the age of 94.

Part of his philosophy is to integrate man's life more into nature and as an architect to maximize man's happiness. Some associate him with populist architecture, although his immense interest in providing "populist architecture" with artistic value should be highlighted, something unprecedented in Venezuela. At the same time, he was a precursor of sustainable and ecologically positive architecture in America. He proposed developing Latin American cities based on indigenous, Arab and Roman heritage. Vivas' own words are:

In an interview published in the newspaper "El Universal "El Universal (Venezuela)")" (2006), he talks about the alternative he would give instead of building a bridge between Margarita Island and the mainland. And the fabulous idea is to build a cable car just for people. The carriages must carry only people, they must go at a level of only 5 meters above sea level and they must be decorated or painted like typical Venezuelan birds with large wings so that the birds do not collide with them. "Everything has already been thought of." "Margarita needs people, but she doesn't need more cars."

In November 2010, he handed over to Oscar Niemeyer[2]​ in Rio de Janeiro the project of the Indigenous Parliament of the Americas on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Brasilia as a gift from Venezuela and the Oscar Niemeyer chair of the Faculty of Architecture of the Central University of Venezuela. Within the framework of the Congress of the Homeland, Ecosocialism Chapter, President Nicolás Maduro announced in March 2017 the creation of the Popular University of the Environment Fruto Vivas, which he assured will train professionals under the "new concept of agroecosocialism." The main headquarters will be located in Barquisimeto, Lara state, where the National Flower of Venezuela is located.

• - Church of Santa Rosa, Valencia "Valencia (Venezuela)"), Venezuela (1946).

• - Táchira Club, Caracas, Venezuela (1955).

• - Hotel Moruco, Mérida "Mérida (Venezuela)"), Venezuela (1955).

• - Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela, together with the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1955).

• - Church of the Holy Redeemer, San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1957).

• - Church of the Zapara urbanization, Maracaibo, Venezuela (1957).

• - La Cumbre Hotel, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela (1958).

• - Plaza Mayor of San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1958).

• - Hotel La Montaña, La Grita, Venezuela (1967).

• - Trees for Life Complex, Dairies, Venezuela (1994).

• - Venezuelan Pavilion at Hannover Expo (2000) since 2007 in [Barquisimeto and known as the Flower of Venezuela or Flower of Hannover].

• - Project for the headquarters of the NGO Vidas Recicladas in Santos, Brazil (2011).

• - The Flower of the Four Elements, Caracas, Venezuela (2013).

• - National Architecture Prize of Venezuela (1987).

• - Architecture: Central University of Venezuela (2009).

• - Architecture: Experimental University of Táchira (2011).

• - Architecture: Bolivarian University of Venezuela (2013).

• - Popular University of the Environment Fruto Vivas (2017).

• - Monumental Circus of Venezuela (1945).

• - Church of Santa Rosa, Valencia, Venezuela (1946).

• - Barquisimeto Social Center. Competition Winner (1951).

• - Olympic Citadel of Cúcuta, Colombia, Winner of the contest along with Juan José Yánez") (1954).

• - Democratic Club of San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1954).

• - Design and Construction for Commander Pacanins and General Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1954).

• - Design and Construction of the Táchira club, Caracas, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1955).

• - Research on the roof membrane of the Táchira club in collaboration with Eduardo Torroja, Madrid, Spain (1955).

• - Design of the Moruco Hotel, Santo Domingo, Mérida, Venezuela (1955).

• - Collaborator in the design of the Museum of Modern Art, with the architect Oscar Niemeyer, Caracas (1955).

• - Project and construction of housing for the first electrification camp of Caroní, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela (1956).

• - Design and construction of the Church of the Divine Redeemer "Church of the Divine Redeemer (San Cristóbal)") and Plaza of the La Concordia neighborhood unit, San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1957).

• - Design and construction of the Church and Plaza of the Zapara urbanization, Maracaibo (1957).

• - Project and construction of experimental housing, first prototype of biothermal cooling, generator of "trees to live", carried out in Judibana, Falcón, Venezuela, for Dr. Adolfo Valbuena (1957).

• - Research on popular architecture, experimental model, bahareque house in Río Chico, Property of Herman Roo and Inocente Palacios, later called by critics as "Populist Architecture" (1957).

• - La Cumbre Hotel, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela (1958).

• - Plaza Mayor of San Cristóbal, Venezuela, (1958).

• - Preliminary project "Club Playa Grande" (not built), Caracas, Venezuela (1958).

• - Proposals for a popular housing plan by the Municipal Urban Planning Office, in Caracas (1959).

• - Construction of an experimental model carried out jointly with CENDES and Banco Obrero in the Alberto Ravell urbanization, in El Valle, Caracas, First Prototype of a prefabricated building made in Venezuela, with Venezuelan technology (1960-1961).

• - "Union Group Building" project (not built). Winner of the competition, first design in metal supporting frames, Caracas, (1960).

• - Design and Construction of residential homes for high-income classes, based on the use of traditional materials.

• - Design of residential homes in steel, ceramics and light materials, based on the use of oil and high production technologies, manual assembly that is easy to interpret for the people, paving the way towards "Mass Architecture", for example the Caroní Hotel for Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. These Studies cover from 1957 to 1965.

• - Proposals on boundary structures applied to construction within the "Mass Architecture" line carried out at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Research design of homes with Cuban patent expanded clay aggregates, at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Research design of housing using sugarcane bagasse and recyclable materials at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Development of "Mass Architecture" systems. Construction of experimental models. Camilo System, Regulatory system for Cuba's housing plan, including the research, design and execution of popularly assembled simplified sanitary systems. Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Simplified electrical system design (1966-1968).

• - Design of "Large Ceramic Panel" in collaboration with engineers Héctor Vivas and Aníbal Rodríguez (1966-1968).

• - Design of modular equipment (1966-1968).

• - Design of carrying systems and popular technologies for immediate use (1966-1968).

• - Design of the pilot plan for the application of "Architecture of the Masses" with the International Volunteer Work Brigade, made up of technicians and workers from the "Crafts Plan" of the neighborhoods of Havana, building 43 childcare centers in 30 days in the City of Havana, Cuba (1967).

• - Design of the Prefabricated Dairy Plan, from the Gusev plan, in Colón, Matanzas, Cuba (1968).

• - Design of the "CARONÍ" construction system based on the use of stereo structures, made of second-class seamless tubes from the Siderúrgica de Venezuela, with a model project experienced at the Institute of Materials and Models, of the Central University of Venezuela.

• - Realization of complete plans for a hotel in the lower falls of the Caroní River, in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, Calculator Engineer, Francisco Marín, 1964 (First Hydro-Structural Proposal for non-combustible metal buildings).

• - Design of "Portable Frames" for the construction of "Trees to Live" using the assembly technique of different industrial products, Homes: José Vargas, Colinas de Carrizal in Los Teques and Ricardo Méndez Moreno in San Cristóbal, and others built between 1969 and 1975.

• -

Girardot Municipal Palace in the city of Maracay, Aragua state

Design of the construction system applying reinforced concrete hexapods for the Municipal Palace project in the City of Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela (1972).

• - Design of a steel hanging structure system for the use of "Trees for Living" within the usual crane criteria, with the proposal of a pavilion for the exhibition fair in San Jacinto, Maracay, designed in 1973, built in 1976 Structural engineer, Francisco Marín (1968).

• - Proposal of "Trees to Live", experimental model, residence of Dr. Homero Marín, in Trinidad, Caracas (Engineer Manuel Santana)(1975).

• - System of mobile housing units (Unimóviles) experimental model, Fruto Vivas residence, in Barquisimeto (Engineer Manuel Santana)(1975).

• - "Tintorero" Project, sociological research for a housing plan for a community in Tintorero, Lara State in collaboration with the Architect, Eva Blanco and the sociologist Nelly Nieves, Barquisimeto (1975).

• - Experimental project "Hotel los Cocos" in Puerto La Cruz, through the system of inhabited bridges, Venezuela (in collaboration with José Agüero) (1978).

• - In 1993, it built its first proposal for multifamily housing called "Tree to Live", not in vertical buildings but in horizontal blocks, with three floors and an intermediate corridor that intersect each other at different heights connected to vertical circulation systems. The metal structure is made of load-bearing frames with three floors each, which when joined together form a modular cube that is repeated to solve six different types of apartments. The supports are 13 m high laminar structures designed following the development of structural forces, forming large sculptures. It is a polychrome cross-ventilation building with the colors of Caribbean architecture, it is located in the city of Lechería "Lechería (Venezuela)"), Anzoátegui state and was a work commissioned by the Pequiven workers' cooperative.

• - Project for the headquarters of the NGO Vidas Recicladas in Santos, Brazil (2011).

• - The "La Esperanza" Chapel of the Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital (March 2013).

• - The "Flower of the Four Elements", mausoleum of Hugo Chávez in the Cuartel de la Montaña "Cuartel de la Montaña (Caracas)") (March 2013).

• - Carlos Raúl Villanueva.

• - Ibrahim López García.

• - This work contains a translation derived from "José Vivas" from English Wikipedia, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• - A Flood of Optimism.

• - Venezuelan Program - Modernism+Caracas.

• - The Very Fabric of Architecture: textile use in construction.

• - Duarte, Dimitri. "Fruto Vivas: A Tachirense and revolutionary architect", Aporrea, (accessed March 29, 2012).

• - Ramirez, Johan. "The dream of a possible Caracas." Estampas, April 6, 2008. (accessed March 29, 2012).

• - Works by Fruto Vivas in Urbipedia.

He died in Caracas after leaving a legacy in the country with emblematic methods and works on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at the age of 94.

Part of his philosophy is to integrate man's life more into nature and as an architect to maximize man's happiness. Some associate him with populist architecture, although his immense interest in providing "populist architecture" with artistic value should be highlighted, something unprecedented in Venezuela. At the same time, he was a precursor of sustainable and ecologically positive architecture in America. He proposed developing Latin American cities based on indigenous, Arab and Roman heritage. Vivas' own words are:

In an interview published in the newspaper "El Universal "El Universal (Venezuela)")" (2006), he talks about the alternative he would give instead of building a bridge between Margarita Island and the mainland. And the fabulous idea is to build a cable car just for people. The carriages must carry only people, they must go at a level of only 5 meters above sea level and they must be decorated or painted like typical Venezuelan birds with large wings so that the birds do not collide with them. "Everything has already been thought of." "Margarita needs people, but she doesn't need more cars."

In November 2010, he handed over to Oscar Niemeyer[2]​ in Rio de Janeiro the project of the Indigenous Parliament of the Americas on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Brasilia as a gift from Venezuela and the Oscar Niemeyer chair of the Faculty of Architecture of the Central University of Venezuela. Within the framework of the Congress of the Homeland, Ecosocialism Chapter, President Nicolás Maduro announced in March 2017 the creation of the Popular University of the Environment Fruto Vivas, which he assured will train professionals under the "new concept of agroecosocialism." The main headquarters will be located in Barquisimeto, Lara state, where the National Flower of Venezuela is located.

• - Church of Santa Rosa, Valencia "Valencia (Venezuela)"), Venezuela (1946).

• - Táchira Club, Caracas, Venezuela (1955).

• - Hotel Moruco, Mérida "Mérida (Venezuela)"), Venezuela (1955).

• - Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela, together with the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1955).

• - Church of the Holy Redeemer, San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1957).

• - Church of the Zapara urbanization, Maracaibo, Venezuela (1957).

• - La Cumbre Hotel, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela (1958).

• - Plaza Mayor of San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1958).

• - Hotel La Montaña, La Grita, Venezuela (1967).

• - Trees for Life Complex, Dairies, Venezuela (1994).

• - Venezuelan Pavilion at Hannover Expo (2000) since 2007 in [Barquisimeto and known as the Flower of Venezuela or Flower of Hannover].

• - Project for the headquarters of the NGO Vidas Recicladas in Santos, Brazil (2011).

• - The Flower of the Four Elements, Caracas, Venezuela (2013).

• - National Architecture Prize of Venezuela (1987).

• - Architecture: Central University of Venezuela (2009).

• - Architecture: Experimental University of Táchira (2011).

• - Architecture: Bolivarian University of Venezuela (2013).

• - Popular University of the Environment Fruto Vivas (2017).

• - Monumental Circus of Venezuela (1945).

• - Church of Santa Rosa, Valencia, Venezuela (1946).

• - Barquisimeto Social Center. Competition Winner (1951).

• - Olympic Citadel of Cúcuta, Colombia, Winner of the contest along with Juan José Yánez") (1954).

• - Democratic Club of San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1954).

• - Design and Construction for Commander Pacanins and General Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1954).

• - Design and Construction of the Táchira club, Caracas, Venezuela. Competition Winner (1955).

• - Research on the roof membrane of the Táchira club in collaboration with Eduardo Torroja, Madrid, Spain (1955).

• - Design of the Moruco Hotel, Santo Domingo, Mérida, Venezuela (1955).

• - Collaborator in the design of the Museum of Modern Art, with the architect Oscar Niemeyer, Caracas (1955).

• - Project and construction of housing for the first electrification camp of Caroní, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela (1956).

• - Design and construction of the Church of the Divine Redeemer "Church of the Divine Redeemer (San Cristóbal)") and Plaza of the La Concordia neighborhood unit, San Cristóbal, Venezuela (1957).

• - Design and construction of the Church and Plaza of the Zapara urbanization, Maracaibo (1957).

• - Project and construction of experimental housing, first prototype of biothermal cooling, generator of "trees to live", carried out in Judibana, Falcón, Venezuela, for Dr. Adolfo Valbuena (1957).

• - Research on popular architecture, experimental model, bahareque house in Río Chico, Property of Herman Roo and Inocente Palacios, later called by critics as "Populist Architecture" (1957).

• - La Cumbre Hotel, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela (1958).

• - Plaza Mayor of San Cristóbal, Venezuela, (1958).

• - Preliminary project "Club Playa Grande" (not built), Caracas, Venezuela (1958).

• - Proposals for a popular housing plan by the Municipal Urban Planning Office, in Caracas (1959).

• - Construction of an experimental model carried out jointly with CENDES and Banco Obrero in the Alberto Ravell urbanization, in El Valle, Caracas, First Prototype of a prefabricated building made in Venezuela, with Venezuelan technology (1960-1961).

• - "Union Group Building" project (not built). Winner of the competition, first design in metal supporting frames, Caracas, (1960).

• - Design and Construction of residential homes for high-income classes, based on the use of traditional materials.

• - Design of residential homes in steel, ceramics and light materials, based on the use of oil and high production technologies, manual assembly that is easy to interpret for the people, paving the way towards "Mass Architecture", for example the Caroní Hotel for Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. These Studies cover from 1957 to 1965.

• - Proposals on boundary structures applied to construction within the "Mass Architecture" line carried out at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Research design of homes with Cuban patent expanded clay aggregates, at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Research design of housing using sugarcane bagasse and recyclable materials at the Technical Research Center of the Ministry of Construction, Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Development of "Mass Architecture" systems. Construction of experimental models. Camilo System, Regulatory system for Cuba's housing plan, including the research, design and execution of popularly assembled simplified sanitary systems. Havana, Cuba (1966-1968).

• - Simplified electrical system design (1966-1968).

• - Design of "Large Ceramic Panel" in collaboration with engineers Héctor Vivas and Aníbal Rodríguez (1966-1968).

• - Design of modular equipment (1966-1968).

• - Design of carrying systems and popular technologies for immediate use (1966-1968).

• - Design of the pilot plan for the application of "Architecture of the Masses" with the International Volunteer Work Brigade, made up of technicians and workers from the "Crafts Plan" of the neighborhoods of Havana, building 43 childcare centers in 30 days in the City of Havana, Cuba (1967).

• - Design of the Prefabricated Dairy Plan, from the Gusev plan, in Colón, Matanzas, Cuba (1968).

• - Design of the "CARONÍ" construction system based on the use of stereo structures, made of second-class seamless tubes from the Siderúrgica de Venezuela, with a model project experienced at the Institute of Materials and Models, of the Central University of Venezuela.

• - Realization of complete plans for a hotel in the lower falls of the Caroní River, in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, Calculator Engineer, Francisco Marín, 1964 (First Hydro-Structural Proposal for non-combustible metal buildings).

• - Design of "Portable Frames" for the construction of "Trees to Live" using the assembly technique of different industrial products, Homes: José Vargas, Colinas de Carrizal in Los Teques and Ricardo Méndez Moreno in San Cristóbal, and others built between 1969 and 1975.

• -

Girardot Municipal Palace in the city of Maracay, Aragua state

Design of the construction system applying reinforced concrete hexapods for the Municipal Palace project in the City of Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela (1972).

• - Design of a steel hanging structure system for the use of "Trees for Living" within the usual crane criteria, with the proposal of a pavilion for the exhibition fair in San Jacinto, Maracay, designed in 1973, built in 1976 Structural engineer, Francisco Marín (1968).

• - Proposal of "Trees to Live", experimental model, residence of Dr. Homero Marín, in Trinidad, Caracas (Engineer Manuel Santana)(1975).

• - System of mobile housing units (Unimóviles) experimental model, Fruto Vivas residence, in Barquisimeto (Engineer Manuel Santana)(1975).

• - "Tintorero" Project, sociological research for a housing plan for a community in Tintorero, Lara State in collaboration with the Architect, Eva Blanco and the sociologist Nelly Nieves, Barquisimeto (1975).

• - Experimental project "Hotel los Cocos" in Puerto La Cruz, through the system of inhabited bridges, Venezuela (in collaboration with José Agüero) (1978).

• - In 1993, it built its first proposal for multifamily housing called "Tree to Live", not in vertical buildings but in horizontal blocks, with three floors and an intermediate corridor that intersect each other at different heights connected to vertical circulation systems. The metal structure is made of load-bearing frames with three floors each, which when joined together form a modular cube that is repeated to solve six different types of apartments. The supports are 13 m high laminar structures designed following the development of structural forces, forming large sculptures. It is a polychrome cross-ventilation building with the colors of Caribbean architecture, it is located in the city of Lechería "Lechería (Venezuela)"), Anzoátegui state and was a work commissioned by the Pequiven workers' cooperative.

• - Project for the headquarters of the NGO Vidas Recicladas in Santos, Brazil (2011).

• - The "La Esperanza" Chapel of the Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital (March 2013).

• - The "Flower of the Four Elements", mausoleum of Hugo Chávez in the Cuartel de la Montaña "Cuartel de la Montaña (Caracas)") (March 2013).

• - Carlos Raúl Villanueva.

• - Ibrahim López García.

• - This work contains a translation derived from "José Vivas" from English Wikipedia, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• - A Flood of Optimism.

• - Venezuelan Program - Modernism+Caracas.

• - The Very Fabric of Architecture: textile use in construction.

• - Duarte, Dimitri. "Fruto Vivas: A Tachirense and revolutionary architect", Aporrea, (accessed March 29, 2012).

• - Ramirez, Johan. "The dream of a possible Caracas." Estampas, April 6, 2008. (accessed March 29, 2012).

• - Works by Fruto Vivas in Urbipedia.