Disputes Over Architecture at La Escuelita of Buenos Aires (1976-83)

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the experience in architectural education known as La Escuelita, developed in Buenos Aires during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-83). It presents and discusses the different discourses on architecture that disputed an institutionally fragile but highly relevant space for Argentine architectural culture and professional sociability in the period.

KEYWORDS:
history of architecture; architectural education; postmodernism; Argentina