ARGENTINA BETWEEN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES: THE PATH TO MODERNITY IN ARCHITECTURE

The affirmation of Argentine modernity is a process that began at the end of the 19th century and culminated during the first decades of the 20th century, leading to the opening of new cultural debates using a heterogeneous language. The important migratory waves created social and economic instability, transforming the cities into places of experimentation and a building site of modernity, where local print had a central role. The spread of the avant-gardes and the beginnings of the first expressions of the Modern Movement were accompanied by the search for a national culture, through the rediscovery of its own historical roots. Argentina transformed itself into a laboratory of modernity and modernization in architectural and cultural field.