Keywords
Modern Architecture
Nature
Housing
Le Corbusier
Maison Curutchet. Key Words Plus
Maison Curutchet (La Plata
Argentina)
1887-1965-Criticism and Interpretation
Architecture
Modern-20th Century
Nature (Aesthetics).
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Abstract
An issue that has received little treatment in the studies devoted to the only built work of Le Corbusier built in Latin America,maison Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina (1948-1953), is the role of the tree contained in that building. This essay aims toshow that the management given by Le Corbusier to that issue is not accidental and that the relationship between the tree,the project and the built work has precedents in some works of this architect that date back to the 1920s. To demonstrate thisfact it appeals to the compositional analysis of the project and the work, reading of the treatment of the topic in the previousinvestigations and the review of several publications on the mentioned house.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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