He commissioned French architect René Sergent in 1910 to design a mansion in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, and contracted the Parisian interior designer André Carlhian and landscaper Charles Thays.
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The church was constructed in gothic style, with usage of elements of Polish gothic style, which had a peculiar pompousness and richness of decorative forms, unlike the French and English styles.
The classical tradition in French architecture was never overwhelmed, however, and the reaction in favor of classicism began as early as the 1740s in the Académie, in the atelier of Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and among the young pensionnaires at the French Academy in Rome.