NATION REPORT PART 2
Rigo Cardenas
In the 1930s, Colombia began to
embrace modern architecture. The new
Liberal Party government tore down
many older buildings to reject the
conservative past. In their place, it
constructed modern buildings with an
international flavor.
Colombian architecture reflects
seventeenth century Spanish colonial
origins. Regional differences derive from
those found in Spain.
ARCHITECTURE
Until the mid-1940s, most Colombians lived in
single-family dwellings bult of cinder blocks
and covered with an adobe made of clay, cow
manure, and hay. Uncontrolled urban growth
due to massive migration from rural areas
resulted in hughe informal settlements which
make up the bulk of Colombia's housing
problem up to the present time. Nontheless,
there have been a few notable examples of
high-density housing projects (aimed, however,
at the rising middle-classes) such as the Centro
Antonio Nariño, which followed the principles
of Le Corbusier or the Torres del Parque by the
famed architect Rogelio Salmona.
M O D E R N A R C H I T E C T U R E I N C O L O M B I A
The architecture in Colombia. Although in this
historical period Colombia one was affected by a
series of economic problems, nevertheless profit the
development of changes of republican type in his
physical and functional aspect. Raising topologies
derived from the baroque one in where the decoration
of the facades and new aspect of the space I publish
they were the most important elements at urban level.
In this period one is reflected all the sight
architectonic level in Europe in century XIX, in this
single reflection took into account the aesthetic one
from architecture in general without giving greater
importance to the process with which I get myself to
obtain that level. Bringing a this architecture that did
not adapt to the context of the urban means in which
it was and later it went away connecting.
ARCHITECTURE
SOURCES
http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Colombia
http://
architecture.arqhys.com/history/colombian.html
http://
architecture.arqhys.com/history/colombian.html