estudioHerreros   Argentina   The new building of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires (MALBA) opened on 22 September in Belén de Escobar, a municipality 45 kilometers from the Argentinian capital. After a joint intervention in the public areas of the museum, which ha

Gonzalo Bardach arquitectura    Argentina   A conifer forest in Costa Esmeralda, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires, is the location of this building of fluid, organic shapes, organized in partly buried, single-level pavilions and crowned with green roofs. They adapt to and take advan

Malvina Zayat   Argentina   In Salsipuedes, located 30 kilometers from Córdoba, Argentina, this house immersed in nature adapts to a steep slope. Containing an area of 106 square meters, the prism seems to levitate over the mountain. The house is organized linearly within a spa

Agustín Berzero Manuel González Veglia (TECTUM)   Argentina   Anchored to a very steep slope, the house is built with rough-hewn concrete and presents an interplay of complementary opposites. Raised over the natural topography on columns, the heavy volume is crowned with an open deck, a lookout-roof that serves

Atelier Atlántico   Argentina   Working from offices in Logroño (La Rioja, Spain) and Santa Fe (Argentina), Atelier Atántico – Inter – won the competition to build an interpretation center, along with an auditorium, for the Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis subfluvial tunnel. L

Santiago Viale y Asociados   Argentina   The house is located in one of the neighborhoods that had been part of the lands making up the greenbelt of the Argentinian city of Córdoba. The objective was to maintain the trees existing on the site, for the solar protection that clusters of trees

Estudio Mola   Argentina   The location of this 1,400-square-meter building is Castelar, a locality in Morón, which is a partido of Buenos Aires Province. On a tract of land 17 meters in front and 46 deep, the complex rises as a row of duplexes attached to the existing high pa

Federico Marinaro   Argentina   Encompassing a built area of 847 square meters, the project is part of a series of commissions for mixed- and-tourist-use, high-rise buildings in the city of Rosario, in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe. The developers belong to the steel industr

Francisco Cadau    Argentina   This stand-alone, five-story block rises on a base. The main volume is structured by a double bay of apartments that prolong in terrace-like patios, giving the facade a pattern of repeated squares resembling a checkerboard with alternating voids. The

Ana Smud Daniel Zelcer Camila Jalife   Argentina   Located in the Palermo neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, the project involved enlarging and restoring an old warehouse for a company that designs and retails clothes. Maintaining the existing courtyard as a connecting core, the intervention e

estudioHerreros Torrado Arquitectos   Argentina   The first requirement that MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires) must address is to be inclusive, receptive, and friendly to citizenry as a whole. The city must enter the museum, and with it the visitors, aiming to transform the museum

MCL Studio   Argentina   The city of Moreno, in Buenos Aires province, is the location of this residential complex built by MCL Studio, a firm headed by Juan Micieli. With a built area of 7,200 square meters, the building is organized around a central cloister, which, integr

Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos   Argentina   The Argentinian firm headed by Joaquin Alarcia and Federico Ferrer built this pink-pigmented concrete house mirroring the mineral tones of the surrounding Sierras Chicas. Adapted to the mountain slope, the linear, 380-square-meter construction presen

Josep Ferrando Architecture   Argentina   A rectangular block marked by a strong structural order closes up a block of the popular Barrio River neighborhood, completing the premises of a university campus with new facilities. A sequence of concrete portal frames that reduce in number towards

Estudio Botteri-Connell    Argentina   In City Bell, a town located in Buenos Aires Province, stands this residence designed by Sofía Botteri and Patricio Connell's La Plata-based firm. The 275-square-meter building, organized around a central pond, is designed in pursuit of 'immaterialit

RDR architectes   Argentina   At Puente Blanco, a remote spot in the Argentinian Patagonia, close to the southern border with Chile, we find this stockbreeding estate that has been renovated and expanded by Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés architectes (RDR architectes), the firm

Mario Corea   Argentina   The firm headed by Mario Corea (with Silvana Codina, Francisco Quijano, and Bruno Reinheimeres), the Special Projects Unit of Argentina’s Public Works Ministry, and the Government of the Province of Santa Fe collaborated in building CEMAFE, the outpa

Estudio Botteri-Connell    Argentina   The Argentinian practice of Sofia Botteri and Patricio Connell designed this house for a young family with two children, located in a country club in the province of Buenos Aires. Surrounded by trees, the 180-square-meter modular structure is defined

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Argentina   As the legacy of rather worn-out rational mechanisms, the free plan supposes an ideally unlimited, undefined and flexible spatial system, certainly indifferent to activities and places. It is an idealized endless floor plan towards the inside and the

Foster + Partners   Argentina   Initially conceived for the Banco Ciudad, the building was transformed into a city hall thanks to its functional and symbolic versatility. The project uses the free distribution of the Climatroffice, evoking the hospital designs of Amancio Williams w

Nicolás Campodonico   Argentina   Inspired in the form and construction of traditional coal ovens, the chapel takes the shape of an irregular prism inside of which a simple brick vault has been sculpted. 

Rafael Iglesia   Argentina   The definition of the word quincha makes reference to a traditional construction system that uses cane, reed or similar materials to build walls, which are later covered with mud. In Argentina, the quincha is also the place where the family gathers t

GGMPU Arquitectos   Argentina   The extension of the Emilio Caraffa Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, located in the capital of Córdoba, brings together the neoclassical building, designed at the beginning of the 20th century by the Hungarian architect Johannes Dronfuss, and the rece

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   At the time that the firm Foster Associates was starting out, around 1967, the Argentinian designer and critic Tomás Maldonado conceived a sophisticated theory of environmental design that he would put down in La speranza progettuale (published in th

Ana María Rigotti   The amazing and much awarded Rafael Iglesia, born in Rosario, Argentina, has left us at the age of 63. Brilliant and incisive, profound and ironic, prone to take risks, he maintained his sharp and sly gaze up to the very end, even through a heartrend

Jorge Francisco Liernur   As is well known, Le Corbusier embarked for Buenos Aires from Bordeaux on board the Massilia on September 14, 1929. One of his traveling companions was Adelina del Carril, who, along with her late husband, Ricardo Güiraldes (who had died in Paris two

This brick house in Buenos Aires has two theoretical references. On one hand, Kenneth Frampton’s definition of tectonics, which he considers not only a “mere disclosure of the construction technique, but, rather, its expressive potential.” To Frampto

Manuel Cuadra   In possession of a powerful and unique sculptural language, Clorindo Testa was perhaps the most internationally recognized modern Argentinian architect.

Silvio Plotquin   Trained in early rationalism, Álvarez was one of those responsible for introducing into Argentina the language of modernity, to which he remained faithful through seven decades.

Luis Müller   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.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Marked by his exile in Argentina, where he brought the Modern Movement, Bonet produced a complex and eclectic oeuvre that embraced industrial design, architecture and urban planning.

Roberto Segre   Formado en la época heroica del Movimiento Moderno, el recientemente fallecido Mario Roberto Álvarez introdujo en Argentina los principios del racionalismo, a los que permaneció fiel en su larga carrera.

Behind the posters of the films of Pedro Almodóvar or Álex de la Iglesia, the records of Alaska or Miguel Bosé, we find the figure of the Argentinian artist Juan Gatti (Buenos Aires, 1950), author of a large part of the iconography of our country dur

Alberto Petrina   Even the most concise analysis of current Argentinian architecture requires a look at its modern genetics, a good part of its conceptual formulation and technical development having its origins there. A mix of diverse but wisely integrated influences

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Latin America celebrates in 2010 the bicentennial of its independence. The Bolivarian Venezuela begins the commemorative cycle on 19 April, Argentina will follow on 25 May, Colombia on 20 July, Mexico and Chile on 16 and 18 September. These last four

Adela García-Herrera   En agosto de 1998, cuando se encontraba en Buenos Aires impartiendo un curso, el arquitecto y catedrático de la Escuela de Barcelona Helio Piñón descubrió la obra de un veterano colega argentino, Mario Roberto Álvarez. Fue una especie de flechazo, y

Marc Llorens   Se agrava la recesión argentina y su orgullosa capital se abarata en más de un sentido. En los últimos meses la ciudad se replantea su existencia entre ruido de cacerolas y sobresaltos que fracturan el paisaje urbano y humano. Desde el hemisferio opu

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