Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980. MoMA
03/12/2014.
Exhibition. MoMA [NYC] USA 29/03 > 12/07/2015
metalocus, ALEX DURO
metalocus, ALEX DURO
On the 60th anniversary of its last major survey of modern architecture in Latin America, The Museum of Modern Art returns its focus to the region with Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, from Mexico to Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.
Brasilia underconstruction, 1957. Geofoto. Arquivo Publico do Distrito Federal.
Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. Plaza of thethreepowers, Brasilia, Brazil, 1958-1960. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti © Leonardo Finotti.
Eladio Dieste. Church in Atlantida, Uruguay, 1958. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti © Leonardo Finotti.
Rogelio Salmona. Torres del Parque Residencial Complex, Bogotá, Colombia, 1964-1970. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti © Leonardo Finotti.
Mario Gandelsonas and Marta Minujin. Transformador de Cuerpos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966. Pencil and inkonpaper. 28 ½ x 42” (72.4 x 106.7 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Architect.
Clorindo Testa. Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959-1966. © Archivo Manuel Gomez Piñeiro, Courtesy of Fabio Grementieri.
Amancio Williams. Hospital in Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina, 1948-1953. Drawing. Unframed: 25 9/16 x 37 5/8” (65 x 95.5cm). © Amancio Williams Archive.
Lúcio Costa. Brasilia, Pilot Plan/Plano Piloto, Brasilia, Brazil. 1957. Drawing, Ink and color pencil on drafting paper. Unframed: 22 7/16 x 26 3/8” (57 x 67 cm). © Casa de Lucio Costa.
Affonso Eduardo Reidy. Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1934-1947. ©Núcleo de Documentação e Pesquisa – Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Oscar Niemeyer. Cathedral Under Construction, Brasilia, Brazil. Photographer: Unknown. Arquivo Publico do Distrito Federal.
Lina Bo Bardi. São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Drawing. Graphite, and inkonpaper. Unframed: 18 9/16 x 27 ½” (47.2 x 69.8cm). Completed 1968. © Instituto Lina Bo e Pietro Maria Bardi.
Emilio Duhart. The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), Santiago, Chile, 1962-1966. Courtesy PUC Archivo de Originales.
Hermano Martin Corréa, Hermano Gabriel Guarda, Patricio Gross, Raúl Ramirez. Benedictine Monastery Chapel, Santiago, Chile, 1964. Courtesy PUC Archivo de Originales.
Rogelio Salmona and Hernán Vieco. Social Housing Complex in San Cristobal, Bogotá, Colombia, 1963-1966. Photograph: Paolo Gasparini © Fundación Rogelio Salmona.
Esguerra Sáenz y Samper. Luis Ángel Arango Library (Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango), Bogotá, Colombia. Cover plan of concert hall. 1965. Drawing, inkontracingpaper. Unframed: 39 ½ x 32 ¾” (100.3 x 83.2cm). © Archivo de Bogotá.
Cuba Pavillion, Montreal, Canada, Vittorio Garatti, 1968. © Archivo Vittorio Garatti.
National School of Plastic Arts, Havana, Cuba, Ricardo Porro, 1961-1965. © Archivo Vittorio Garatti.
Eladio Dieste at Atlantida Church c. 1959. Photograph: Marcelo Sassón. Archivo Dieste y Montañez.
Sicherio Bouret. Edificio Panamericano, 1959. Photograph: Jorge Gambini Ons © Jorge GambiniOns.
Raúl Sichero Bouret. Edificio Panamericano, 1959. Photograph: Jorge Gambini Ons © Jorge Gambini Ons.
Eduardo Terrazas. Triennale di Milano, Mexican Pavilion, 1968. © Eduardo Terrazas Archive.
Eladio Dieste. Atlantida Church under construction c. 1959. © Marcelo Sassón / Archivo Dieste y Montañez.
Walter Weberhofer Quintana. View of Atlas Building, Lima, 1953. ©Archive Walter Weberhofer.
Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré. Hotel in Machu Picchu, Machu Picchu (Project). Perspective. © Archivo Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré.
Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré. Chavez House, Lima, 1958. © Archivo Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré.
Agustín Hernández. Military Academy of Mexico (Heróico Colegio Militar de México). 1976. Model, 5 7/8 x 35 7/16 x 47 ¼” (15 x 90 x 120 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Architect.
Guillermo Jones Odriozola, Francisco Villegas Berro. Arcobaleno Recreation Complex (Conjunto Recreacional Arcobaleno), Punta del Este, Uruguay. 1960. Brochure: 16 9/16 x 23 3/8” (42×59.4cm). Francisco Villegas Berro.
Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz. Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (Corporación Venezolana de Guayana) (CVG). 1966. Blueprint. Framed: 29 ¾ x 24 7/16” (75.5 x 62cm). Guayana City, Venezuela. © Archivo Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz.
Jorge Rigamonti. Caracas Nodo de Transferencia (Caracas Transfer Node 2). 1970. Photocollage. 9 ¼ x 15” (23.5 x 38.1cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Architect.
Tomás José Sanabria. Hotel Humboldt, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956. © Fundación Alberto Vollmer.
On view March 29 through July 19, 2015, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 is organized by Barry Bergdoll, Curator, and Patricio del Real, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA; Jorge Francisco Liernur, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Carlos Eduardo Comas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; with the assistance of an advisory committee from across Latin America.
The exhibition features architectural drawings and models, vintage photographs, and films from the period collected over the last three years from architecture and film archives, universities, and architecture offices throughout the region. Highlighting the extent to which the exhibition contributes to new interpretations of Latin American architecture of the period, several research teams—in addition to the invited curators—have worked over the last two years todevelop analytical models and compilations of rarely seen film footage.
Architects such as Lina Bo Bardi, Lucio Costa, and Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil; Juan O’Gorman, Mario Pani, Luis Barragán, and Teodoro González de León in Mexico; Mario Roberto Alvarez and Clorindo Testa in Argentina; Ricardo Porro, Fernando Salinas and Mario Coyula in Cuba; Henry Klumb in Puerto Rico; Carlos Raúl Villanueva and Jesús Tenreiro in Venezuela; Rogelio Salmona and Germán Samper in Colombia; Eladio Dieste and Nelson Bayardo in Uruguay; and Emilio Duhart and the School of Valparaiso in Chile, to name but a few, met these challenges with formal, urbanist, and programmatic innovation—much of it relevant still to the challenges of our own period, in which Latin America is again providing exciting and challenging architecture and urban responses to the ongoing issues of modernization and development, though in vastly different economic and political contexts than those considered in this major historical reevaluation.
Latin America in Construction.- Architecture 1955-1980.
Dates.- March 29, 2015-July 12, 2015.
Venue.- The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor. MoMA. NYC. USA.
