In 1952, the Argentine architect Clorindo Testa participated in a government study that sought to implement modernist urban planning techniques in a working-class area in Buenos Aires known as the Avellaneda District. Inspired by a functionalist code for city building called the Athens Charter (1933), put forth by the influential group Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), the new plan proposed separating the district into four basic functions: living, circulation (transportation), work, and recreation.
Twenty-two years later, Testa returned to the project, reimagining the life of a boy he had met and drawn playing on the city streets. The resulting mosaic of more than one hundred panels imagines the daily routine of one of the city’s residents. The first three panels of his mosaic document the existing conditions; the following, made in 1974, show the boy, now grown-up, inhabiting an overcrowded city that has suffered successive modernizing efforts. Broad, gestural strokes, referencing...street art or graffiti, combine plan and elevation views in nearly life-size images that follow the sequence of his day: at rest, rising to bathe and eat, commuting aboard a crowded bus, returning home in the evening to his living room and television.
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