The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is one of the two buildings in the Americas 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. La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, widely known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887– August 27, 1965), was a French Swiss born architect, famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism, or the International Style. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Concrete brise-soleil Brise soleil, or brise-soleil (from French, sun break) in architecture refers to a variety of permanent sun-shading techniques, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier to the elaborate mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum. ...

Construction began in 1951 under the supervision of Amancio Williams and was completed in 1955. The house exemplifies Le Corbusier's five points of architecture and incorporates a ramp and a spiral staircase. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, widely known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887– August 27, 1965), was a French Swiss born architect, famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism, or the International Style. ... An inclined plane is a plane surface set at an angle, other than a right angle, against a horizontal surface. ... Stairs, staircase, stairway, flight of stairs are all names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. ...

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. Coordinates: Found 1536, 1580 Mayor Jorge Telerman Area    - City 203 km²  (78. ...

Address

Casa Curutchet
Boulevard 53 N° 320
La Plata 1900
Argentina

References

• Lapunzina, Alejandro. Le Corbusier's Maison Curutchet. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997. ISBN 15-6898-095-7.

See also

• Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier's other building in the Americas

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, one of only two in the Americas. ...

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• Information from Dr. Claudio Canenna
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