Modern architecture in Chile. The case of Roberto Dávila Carson
Modern Architecture that began in Europe at early XX Century has reached Chile through publications, but also through the travelling of Chilean architects to Europe. Trying to apply the modern principles in Chile, those architects have found a strong resistance of the high society which was used to...
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oai:ojs.www.unisinos.br:article-34292021-08-30T19:09:20Z Modern architecture in Chile. The case of Roberto Dávila Carson Arquitectura moderna en Chile. El caso de Roberto Dávila Carson Chauriye, Rodrigo Esteban Modern Architecture that began in Europe at early XX Century has reached Chile through publications, but also through the travelling of Chilean architects to Europe. Trying to apply the modern principles in Chile, those architects have found a strong resistance of the high society which was used to style architecture. That’s the reason why, in Chile, modern architecture has began as one style amongst the other existing ones. However, rationality, economy and rapidity of that new architecture make it attractive to a State willing to endow the country with infrastructure. Dávila has travelled to Europe in a study commission in 1930. He visited Le Corbusier´s first works, took courses with Georges Vantongerloo and Theo Van Doesburg (De Stijl), and took formal postgraduate studies in Austria, obtaining his architecture degree by the Viena Academy of Beaux Arts in June of 1932. This year, the architecture magazine “Modern Bauformen” published his works. Back in Chile, Dávila has became Professor and Dean of the “Universidad de Chile”. Dávila has never embraced extreme modern architecture, trying always to adapt the principles of modernism to the local reality, supporting modernism critics, mixing modern architecture concepts with tradition represented by colonial Chilean architecture. Even though it has failed in form, it is the beginning of a search for a new cultural identity for Latin American architecture.Key words: modern architecture, European vanguard, critical modernism. La arquitectura moderna que se gesta en Europa a comienzos del siglo XX llega a Chile a través de publicaciones, pero también a través de los viajes de arquitectos chilenos al viejo continente. Al intentar aplicar los principios modernos en Chile, éstos se encuentran con la resistencia de las clases altas de una sociedad acostumbrada a una arquitectura de estilos. Es por ello que la arquitectura moderna en Chile se inicia como un estilo más dentro de la oferta ya existente. No obstante la racionalidad, economía y rapidez de esta nueva arquitectura la hacen atractiva para un Estado que necesitaba dotar al país de infraestructura pública. Dávila viaja a Europa en comisión de estudios el año 1930. Visita las primeras obras de Le Corbusier, toma clases de arquitectura con Georges Vantongerloo y Theo Van Doesburg (Grupo De Stijl) y formaliza sus estudios de posgrado en Austria, siendo nombrado “arquitecto diplomado” por la Academia de Bellas Artes de Viena dirigida por Clemenz Holzmeister y Peter Behrens el 30 de Junio de 1932. Ese año la revista de arquitectura Moderne Bauformen publica sus proyectos. De vuelta en Chile, Dávila se transformó en profesor, llegando a ser decano en la Universidad de Chile. Dávila nunca llego a abrazar los principios de una arquitectura moderna a ultranza, velando siempre por adaptar los principios del modernismo a la realidad local, siendo partidario de un modernismo crítico, donde se mezclan los conceptos de la arquitectura moderna con la tradición representada por la arquitectura colonial chilena. Aunque la mezcla fracasa en lo formal, inicia la búsqueda de una nueva identidad cultural para la arquitectura latinoamericana.Palabras clave: Arquitectura moderna, modernismo crítico, arquitectura latinoamericana. Unisinos 2012-12-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2012.82.05 10.4013/arq.2012.82.05 Arquitetura Revista; v. 8 n. 2 (2012): Jul-Dez; 148-154 1808-5741 spa https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2012.82.05/1311 |
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Modern Architecture that began in Europe at early XX Century has reached Chile through publications, but also through the travelling of Chilean architects to Europe. Trying to apply the modern principles in Chile, those architects have found a strong resistance of the high society which was used to style architecture. That’s the reason why, in Chile, modern architecture has began as one style amongst the other existing ones. However, rationality, economy and rapidity of that new architecture make it attractive to a State willing to endow the country with infrastructure. Dávila has travelled to Europe in a study commission in 1930. He visited Le Corbusier´s first works, took courses with Georges Vantongerloo and Theo Van Doesburg (De Stijl), and took formal postgraduate studies in Austria, obtaining his architecture degree by the Viena Academy of Beaux Arts in June of 1932. This year, the architecture magazine “Modern Bauformen” published his works. Back in Chile, Dávila has became Professor and Dean of the “Universidad de Chile”. Dávila has never embraced extreme modern architecture, trying always to adapt the principles of modernism to the local reality, supporting modernism critics, mixing modern architecture concepts with tradition represented by colonial Chilean architecture. Even though it has failed in form, it is the beginning of a search for a new cultural identity for Latin American architecture.Key words: modern architecture, European vanguard, critical modernism. |
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