The Entity of Space and Modern Urbanism in Argentine

Abstract

The great transformation of architecture in the era of the heroic avant-garde is an inversion of the mass-space relationship, which moves from the limits towards the delimited or perceived spatial volume. It should be noted that, in turn, the emergence of the spatial problem in modern architecture inaugurates with the other arts - especially the fine arts - a new relationship that is noticeably closer and less metaphorical than in the past. This article has the purpose of addressing this phenomenon in the Argentine context, sponsored by Buenos Aires concretism, which establishes the synthesis of the arts from spatialism, in the urban scale and context. For this, paradigmatic cases of modern urbanism are selected in order to demonstrate how the dominance of space generates a type of order at the different project scales that is diametrically different from the type of complex, organic and aesthetic ordering of the pre-avant-garde city.