Clorindo Jose Manuel Testa | |
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Born |
Benevento, Italy |
December 10, 1923
Died | April 11, 2013 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
(aged 89)
Nationality | Italian-Argentine |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings |
Banco de Londres y América del Sur Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina La Perla Spa |
Banco de Londres y América del Sur Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina
Clorindo Manuel José Testa (December 10, 1923 – April 11, 2013) was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist.
Testa was born in Benevento,Italy. He graduated from the School of Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1948.
Testa was one of the leaders of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of the brutalist movement in Argentina. His style as an architect has always been influenced by his artistic nature, with projects dominated by the effects of colour, tension, metaphors and plasticity; these aspects are well illustrated in his designs for the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina and the Banco de Londres building in Buenos Aires.
Testa died, aged 89, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.