Curutchet House

Curutchet House
Casa Curutchet
General information
Location La Plata, Argentina
Address Avenida 53 Nº320, 1900
Completed 1949 - 53
Owner Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet
Design and construction
Architect Le Corbusier
Official name The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, vi
Designated 2016 (40th session)
Reference no. 1321-011
State Party  Argentina
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Designated 2006[1]

The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the ground floor. The house consists of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic. The building faces the Paseo del Bosque park. The main facade incorporates a brise soleil.

History

Construction began in 1949 under the supervision of Amancio Williams and was completed in 1953.[2]

Design and construction

The house exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points of architecture and incorporates a ramp and a spiral staircase. The house represents a landmark in Corbusier own trajectory because it exemplifies how cultural and historical characteristics of architecture (the elements of the traditional Latin American courtyard house) can be rewritten using Corbusier's five points of modern architecture.

Dr. Curutchet's house is also one of the very few buildings that Corbusier built attached to pre-existing buildings and perfectly responding to a historical context. With this house Corbusier proved, more than with any of his other projects, that modern architecture could in fact be in a harmonious dialogue with traditional architecture.

Restoration

The house was restored from 1986 to 1988 during the centennial of Le Corbusier's birth and declared a national landmark by Argentina's Commission on National Landmarks. It currently houses the Buenos Aires professional association of architects, the Colegio de Arquitectos, and is open to the public for tours.

In July 2016, the house and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.[3]

The 2009 film El hombre de al lado was shot in the house.

See also

References

  1. Presidential decree 890/2006, InfoLeg, Government of Argentina, date 2006-07-17
  2. UNESCO: World Heritage Sites Tentative List, retrieved 20 October 2013
  3. "The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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