CHACARITA MODERNA

In 1949 the construction of the Sexto Panteón, an underground necropolis containing 150,000 burial plots, was launched. This monumental brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet it remains relatively unknown. Ítala Fulvia Villa (19131991), the projects architect, was one of Argentinas first female architects and urban planners, a pioneer of South American modernism who also contributed to Le Corbusiers master plan for Buenos Aires. In this book, Fren...[Read more]