Plan for Buenos Aires
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01-Aug-2024
In 1929 the famous French architect Le Corbusier travels to Buenos Aires to give a series of lectures on Modern Architecture. During his visit he proposed an urban plan for the city.
Since his trip and for more than twenty years he would obsessively develop his proposal, trying by all possible means to make the Plan for Buenos Aires a reality.
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