An unusually early example of the modern use of exposed concrete in a brutalist rhetoric. The project arose even before the Le Corbusier buildings in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad that were so important for brutalism in India.
Year: 1936
Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la República
The School is an extremely early South American example of the extensive use of exposed concrete. The layout permits the rooms to be used flexibly. Some of the structures recall factory buildings, in other words anticipating the anonymous formal languag…