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3 unusual facts about Amancio Williams


Amancio Williams

He was assigned by Le Corbusier, however, to supervise construction for the Curutchet House, a residence designed in 1949 by the Swiss architect for Dr. Pedro Curutchet, a prominent La Plata physician.

He later employed the concept for the 1966 Bunge y Born exhibit at the La Rural Exposition grounds and in 1968 for the German Embassy, both in Buenos Aires, as well as for a monument to the reconstruction of Berlin.

His father, Alberto Williams, was a well-known composer of chamber music and the founder of the Buenos Aires Music Conservatory.



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