The M/SG/S/S/S/ studio attends the "LatinAmerica in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980"exhibition at the MoMA

The exhibition called "Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980" will be exhibited at the MoMA from March 29 to July 19. The event is organized by the Department of Architecture and Design of MoMA with the curatorship of Barry Bergdoll and Patricio del Real along with Carlos Eduardo Comas –from Brazil-, and Jorge Francisco Liernur –from Argentina- and with the support of consultant committee of Latin America. The exhibition of 1955 celebrates its 60 anniversary where the MoMA organized "Latin American Architecture since 1945", an unprecedented exhibition, which stressed in a decade of architectonical achievements in this region. The current exhibition "Latin America in Construction..." is focused on the quarter of the later century, a period of questioning, exploration and complex political changes in all the countries that take part of the exhibition. Representatives of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico have been selected. During all these years, the Latin American architects built amazing works, which have never given a deserving place in the history of the modern architecture, in which prevails European and US architects.  The 1955 exhibition only showed the result of a photographic study and did not exhibit original materials. Meanwhile, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 compile over 500 drawing and other original documents that have never been exhibited as a whole but rarely exhibited, most of them, even in their countries.

Architect Justo Solsona refers this important distinction after his studio was selected along with other Argentinian mythical creators of the 1955-1980 period such as Clorindo Testa, Amancio Williams, Mario Roberto Álvarez:  "It is a difficult task for the MoMA the fact of having decided to address an exhibition related to the Latin American project work at that time by making a selection in studios or offices. “I understand that the exhibition does not represent countries but modalities, themes, ideas, architectural positions before the demands at that period through documents, drawings and planes taking from private and public records. It has been selected the production of the first years of our studio with an original group including Rafael Viñoly. We will there, curious to see the original works at that time, works by other architects, and certainly, we will make a tour through one of the most fresh and bold creative moments of our production”, Solsona concluded.