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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Located in a residential neighborhood of Buenos Aires, the building accommodates eight two-floor apartments which are accessed through a free-flowing ground floor that is completely open to the exterior and that has circulation paths for vehicles and
The site chosen to build a single-family residence in an old neighborhood of Buenos Aires is actually a narrow and elongated portion of one of the ravines of the Atlantic coast. The plot has a luxuriant vegetation, though its presence is concentrated
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos (ed.) Adamo-Faiden
Claudia Shmidt Arquitectura pública para la "capital permanente". Buenos Aires, 1880-1890
Gütersoh 2010
Bauverlag BV - 33 Pages
Helio Piñón
Barcelona 2002
Edicions UPC - 296 Pages
