Abstract

BONICATTO, Virginia. A place for the exception: Issues regarding the location of the skyscraper in Buenos Aires between 1909 and 1929. An. Inst. Arte Am. Investig. Estét. Mario J. Buschiazzo [online]. 2011, vol.41, n.1, pp.99-112. ISSN 2362-2024.

This paper studies the first skyscrapers in Buenos Aires, understood as a part of the modernization process that took place since the late nineteenth and early  twentieth century. At that time, the buildings projected faced the need for finding a place in a changing city, which bécame a metropolis while trying to be materially defined as Capital  Federal. Was the skyscraper adopted as a feature of the metropolis or as part of the new Capital? To answer this question we study the municipal proposals that attempted to manage the exception giving the skyscraper the role of an ordering element, and examines the dispersed location of private commissioned skyscrapers that, in many cases, come into collide with the homogenization of urban space desire  characteristic of the municipal regulations.

Keywords : Skyscrapers; Buenos Aires; Location problems.

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