Eladio Dieste Artigas, Uruguay (1917 – 2000)

He made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, all in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.

Theory

Constructive Rationality• The mathematic calculation it’s manipulated into an empiric

experience (sculptures), taking into account the architecture as a loyalty to the place.

• The brick as an essence in the construction of laminar surfaces and the organizer of the structure.

• A healthy architecture can’t be produced without a rational and economic use of the materials .

• A architectural language far away of the established codes of tecnological possibilities.

• Every brick and human take part in an all

Cristo Obrero Church (Atlántida, Uruguay 1952)

Grammar• Vaults• Walls of brick• Wavy walls• Steel• Light• Reinforced ceramics

Concepts• A sculptural expressivity. • A consecutive movement, in

function of man’s activity. • A brick as a light support.

ValuesM E F U M E H I S P A I N T

Principles“The form is a language, and that language must be intelligible, we are anxious of intelligibility and expression. Part of the modern concern its due to the absence of expression, the things that surround us hold an hermeticism that represent the negation of the fraternity that naturally should be read in the work of the man in the space.”

Civil transport- Busterminal

Iglesia de San Pedro Durazno

Montevideo Shopping Center

Dieste's unique and innovative method of design, a melding of architecture and engineering, elevated these often humble buildings to masterworks of art

Bibliography• http://www.archdaily.mx/48931/clasicos-de-

arquitectura-iglesia-del-cristo-obrero-eladio-dieste/