(Buenos Aires, 1913 - Buenos Aires, 1989)
In the period 1948-1951 the Argentinian Amancio Williams designed three hospitals that were to be built in a subtropical climate of intense sun and rain. He proposed a roof set high in the buildings in order to leave a large space beneath it for air
With an oeuvre that combined technical rigor and visionary sensitivity, Amancio Williams counts among the leading champions of the ideas of the Modern Architecture in Latin America.
We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated portrait of architecture after the First World War with ten biographies of figures born on the eve of the Second. In my case,
2013 is a year of centenaries. We commemorate the birth of ten masters: five Spaniards, one Japanese, one Greek, one Azerbaijan-French and two Argentinians. The Spaniards (José Antonio Coderch, Alejandro de la Sota, Miguel Fisac, Antoni Bonet i Caste
Veinte casas sirven de ejemplo para ilustrar la arquitectura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en países como México (Luis Barragán, Max Cetto, Enrique del Moral, Francisco Artigas y Augusto H. Álvarez), Colombia (Guillermo Bermúdez), Venezuela (Carlo