Nicolás García Uriburu belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Nicolás García Uriburu as Argentine land artist and architect, focuses on conservation (1937-2016).
Nicolás García Uriburu was born at Buenos Aires in 1937. His recorded nationality is Argentina.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, painter and ecologist.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
That the work was built in Argentina shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Nicolás García Uriburu died in 2016, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
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