The project as heritage

The sugar cities, 1924

Abstract

The following article is part of the research carried out at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Palermo on modernity and regionalism in northwestern Argentina. In 1924, in the Revista de Arquitectura, the first disciplinary publication in Argentina, edited by the Central Society of Architects, an article by the young architects Alberto Prebisch and Ernesto Vautier was published under the name of “Essay of Contemporary Aesthetics”. Vautier and Prebisch, recently arrived from France where they had met Le Corbusier and Tony Garnier, open with their article the debate on the modernization of architecture in Argentina. The article consists of two parts, an essay on the new forms towards which art and architecture are oriented, and a project for a sugar town in the province of Tucumán that introduces both a modern conception in the urban project, as well as a reformulation of the economic structure in the region.