scholarly journals La mirada trasatlántica de Antonio Bonet Castellana : CIAM y lirismo constructivo para Buenos Aires en la década de los 50 = The transatlantic overview of Antonio Bonet Castellana: CIAM and the constructive lyricism for Buenos Aires in the 50s

2020 ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Andrés Tabera Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Intellectual Context

ResumenMucho se ha escrito y publicado recientemente sobre Antonio Bonet Castellana y su pri­macía por la modulación de los sistemas constructivos a comienzos de la década de los cincuenta. Pero en ninguno de los casos se ha desvelado en profundidad, una constante que se repite con la obra del arquitecto catalán, el contexto cultural e intelectual que nutrió dicha búsqueda. Esto es, profundizar en las circunstancias que acontecieron en su primer viaje a Europa diez años después de su estancia en Latinoamérica, en Argentina y Uruguay; un reencuentro con quienes fueran sus maestros, especialmente J.L.Sert y Le Corbusier, en el CIAM VII celebrado en Bérgamo en julio de 1949. Una relación a la que no se le ha prestado suficiente atención hasta la fecha, y que aborda luz no sólo en la biografía particular de Bonet sino también contribuye en el constructo moderno argentino de mediados de s.XX.AbstractMuch has been written and published recently about Antonio Bonet Castellana and his preference for the modulation of the constructive systems in the 50s. However, none of these publications has achieved to reveal accurately the cultural and intellectual context which nourished Sr Antonio´s search. The aim of this publication is to show which events occurred during his first travel to Europe, right after his experiences in Latin America, more precisely in Argentina and Uruguay; events such as the reencounter with his mentors, specially J.L. Sert and Le Corbusier, in the CIAM VII hold in Bergamo, in July 1949. As simple as it may seem it has not been analyzed thoroughly up to date and it brightens not only the biography of Bonet himself but also helps understand the Argentine constructions in the middle of the twentieth century. 

Villanueva, María Cecilia (1964--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Etkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Music ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
German Composer

María Cecilia Villanueva was born in 1964 in La Plata, Argentina. She studied composition with Mariano Etkin at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where she currently works as teacher in composition and researcher in musical analysis focused on twentieth-century music. She is considered one of the most notable figures of her generation, successfully mixing research and composition. Villanueva’s music is a testimony to her esthetic independence. She distinguishes herself from her colleagues by the originality of her technical approaches and her rendering of very personal ideas. The expressive density of Villanueva’s music develops around a complex elaboration of materials, which, in some cases, coexist with elements of extreme simplicity. Her music has been performed in many of the main festivals and new music cycles of Europe, the United States, and Latin America. She has also received recognition for her work on numerous occasions. She was awarded the German Forum JungerKomponisten 1989 (WDR) prize in Köln, and won the Elizabeth Schneider prize in 2001 in Freiburg, as well as the Premio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003. She has been the recipient of several prestigious German composer residences at the AkademieSchloss Solitude, Stuttgart (1994–95), the KünstlerhofSchreyahn (1996) and the KünstlerdorfSchöppingen (2003).

Changing Criminal Patterns in Buenos Aires, 1890 to 1914

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kirk Blackwelder ◽  
Lyman L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
Changing Patterns

Despite the recent development of a broad literature on urbanization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, the topics of public order and crime have eluded careful study.1 The historiography of Argentine urbanization evokes questions about social control, but we know little more about changing patterns of crime and policing than did contemporary observers. Immigration, labor organization, class struggle, and political violence have all been the subjects of scholarly inquiries that suggest both high levels of disorder and the necessity of official responses.2

Race Versus Class Association: the Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1850–1900

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Reid Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
South American ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Early National ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Way

Fundamental to an understanding of the complex relationships between race and social class in Latin America is an understanding of the process by which the caste societies of the colonial and early national periods were gradually transformed into the class societies of the twentieth century. During the 1850s a number of South American nations struck down the last vestiges of their slave regimes and the colonial Régimen de castas, legislation designed to divide society into racial castes arranged in a well-defined hierarchy. Among these countries were Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay delayed until later in the century. These developments seem at first glance to have paved the way for the integration of the non-whites as fully-fledged participants in the continent' newly formed class societies, as several authors writing on the Afro-Latin Americans have concluded.

Testing the Causal Mechanisms in Additional Cases

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Liberal Democratic Party ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Liberal Democratic

Case studies of Indonesia and Japan illustrate that party-system stability in patronage democracies is deeply affected by the relative autonomy of political brokers. Over the course of a decade, a series of decentralizing reforms in Indonesia weakened patronage-based parties hold on power, with the 2014 election ultimately being a contest between two rival populists: Joko Widodo and Subianto Prabowo. Although Japan was a patronage democracy throughout the twentieth century, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remained robust to outsider appeals even in the context of economic and corruption crises. However, reforms in the 1990s weakened the hold of central factional leaders over individual members of the LDP and their patronage machines. This was instrumental to populist Junichiro Koizumi’s winning of the presidency of the LDP and ultimately the prime ministership of Japan. This chapter also reexamines canonical cases of populism in Latin America.

The ‘disappeared’ in Argentina 1976–1980

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Coad
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Robert Cox ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Disappeared ◽  
The Way

We publish below a list of writers and journalists abducted by the security forces and numbered among the ‘disappeared’ in Argentina since 24 March 1976, the date of the military coup that installed General Jorge Rafael Videla in power. Two eye-witness accounts illustrate the way in which such abductions usually take place. Finally, Robert Cox, editor-in-exile of the daily newspaper Buenos Aires Herald, describes how independent-minded journalists and the families of los desaparecidos ( ‘the disappeared’) have been affected. The material is introduced by Index on Censorship's researcher on Latin America, Malcolm Coad.

Elites, Elite Settlements, and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1950–1980: Introduction

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-574
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Revolutionary Movements

Social revolutions as well as revolutionary movements have recently held great interest for both sociopolitical theorists and scholars of Latin American politics. Before we can proceed with any useful analysis, however, we must distinguish between these two related but not identical phenomena. Adapting Theda Skocpol’s approach, we can define social revolutions as “rapid, basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures; and they are accompanied and in part carried through by” mass-based revolts from below, sometimes in cross-class coalitions (Skocpol 1979: 4; Wickham-Crowley 1991:152). In the absence of such basic sociopolitical transformations, I will not speak of (social) revolution or of a revolutionary outcome, only about revolutionary movements, exertions, projects, and so forth. Studies of the failures and successes of twentieth-century Latin American revolutions have now joined the ongoing theoretical debate as to whether such outcomes occur due to society- or movement-centered processes or instead due to state- or regime-centered events (Wickham-Crowley 1992).

Maison Curutchet, La Plata, Argentina

2015 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Jorge Néstor Bozzano ◽  
Julio Santana
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Single Family ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Head Office ◽  
Medical Office ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Institute

The Maison Curutchet is the only house by Le Corbusier in America. The project was developed between 1948 to 1949 and built between 1949 to 1955 as a single-family dwelling and as a professional medical office to the well-known Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet in La Plata, Buenos Aires. In 2013–2014, Colegio de Arquitectos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CAPBA) which head office is settled there, decided to carry out a full maintenance, done with the strict criteria of minimizing the impact on the house and using as reference the original documentation. The process was coordinated by CAPBA's Enhancement Research Institute, led by the architect Pablo Mastropasqua, and directed by the architect Julio Santana.

Unrevolutionary Mexico

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gillingham
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Cultural Control ◽  
Partido Revolucionario Institucional ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
New Generation

Unrevolutionary Mexico addresses how the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) turned into a capitalist dictatorship of exceptional resilience. While soldiers seized power across the rest of Latin America, in modern Mexico the civilians of a single party moved punctiliously in and out of office for seventy-one years. The book uses the histories of the states of Guerrero and Veracruz as entry points to explore the origins and consolidation of this unique authoritarian state on both provincial and national levels. An empirically rich reconstruction of over sixty years of modernization and revolution (1880-1945) revises prevailing ideas of a pacified Mexico and establishes the 1940s as a decade of faltering governments and enduring violence. The book then assesses the pivotal changes of the mid-twentieth century, when a new generation of lawyers, bureaucrats and businessmen joined with surviving revolutionaries to form the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, which held uninterrupted power until 2000. Thematic chapters analyse elections, development, corruption and high and low culture in the period. The central role of military and private violence is explored in two further chapters that measure the weight of hidden coercion in keeping the party in power. In conclusion, the combination of provincial and national histories reveals Mexico as a place where soldiers prevented coups, a single party lost its own rigged elections, corruption fostered legitimacy, violence was concealed but decisive, and ambitious cultural control co-existed with a critical press and a disbelieving public. In conclusion, the book demonstrates how this strange dictatorship thrived not despite but because of its contradictions.

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