Architecture by Italian Designers and Builders in Buenos Aires. Knowledge and Valorisations of the Heritage

Abstract

Between 1880 and 1930 more than two million of Italians migrate in Argentina and the presence between them of designers, technicians, foremen and builders contribute to the birth of a huge number of buildings, characterized by a common Italianizing architectonical matrix, that can be seen nowadays in the city, which in those years was making the transformations linked to its new role of Capital of the young federal republic. These buildings belong to a heritage spread throughout the city and characterized by typological variety and high architectural-stylistic quality, but made fragile not only by weak protection politics in force until few years ago, but also by its condition of diffusion, which have impeded its valorisation and identification. This work is the set of census, classification, survey and description, made since 2015, of residential buildings, Italian associations’ headquarters and schools, and it has the purpose to give support to the protection and valorisation of this heritage, helping also the cultural tourism.