Between 1967 and 1968, the Uruguayan architect Eladio Dieste built a house for his large family (the couple and eleven children) in the Punta Gorda quarter of Montevideo, just a few meters from the Río de la Plata. He lived there until his death in 2000, and for a long time it was also his studio. Having earned his degree in 1943 at the Engineering School of Montevideo, where he taught until 1973, he started out with an excellent base in physics and mathematics. He also had a solid humanistic background, thanks to his family and his friendship with artists like the great Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García... [+]