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Amancio Williams was born on 19 February, 1913 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Argentine architect. Discover Amancio Williams's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 19 February, 1913
Birthday 19 February
Birthplace Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death 14 October, 1989
Died Place Buenos Aires
Nationality Buenos Aires

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1913

Amancio Williams (February 19, 1913 –October 14, 1989) was an Argentine architect.

He is among his country's leading exponents of modern architecture.

Amancio Williams was born in Buenos Aires in 1913.

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

Williams Jr. enrolled at the School of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), though an interest in aviation led him to leave school during his third year.

1938

This sabbatical ended in 1938, when he enrolled at UBA's School of Architecture.

1941

He graduated in 1941 and created a portfolio of numerous prospective designs, though he found buyers for only a few, and among these was a modernist residence in Mar del Plata commissioned by his own father.

The elder Williams had purchased a 2 ha property in what were then the wooded outskirts of the seaside city.

1942

A stream running through the land became the centerpiece for the architect's 1942 design.

Williams and his wife, Delfina Gálvez Bunge, also designed the home's minimalist interiors, fashioning the interior doors, fixtures and boiserie in a nearby workshop, as well most of the furniture.

The concrete used in its construction was also chemically weatherized at the facility, so done to allow its use in the design without the need for cladding, which Williams felt would take from the "honesty of the materials".

1945

His design proposals in 1945 for a new international airport, to be built on the Río de la Plata and connected to the city via causeway, were rejected in favor of what became Ministro Pistarini International Airport, and aside from three Corrientes Province hospitals, he would complete no significant government works in subsequent decades.

1946

Christened the Casa sobre el Arroyo ("House on the Stream") upon its completion in 1946, it was built for his father Alberto Williams - who by then had fallen ill, and thus never lived in the home.

The house is listed among the most famous modernist buildings of the 20th century.

1949

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.

1950

During the 1950s, he developed designs based on what he called hollow vaults.

These were concrete pillars that, by their design, could drain rainwater while supporting the building above as stilts.

1951

He was invited to display his ideas on acoustics at La Sorbonne, and the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Walter Gropius, organized exhibits of his works in 1951 and 1955, on which latter occasion Williams was a guest lecturer.

1962

Williams was inducted into the American Institute of Architects as an honorary member in 1962.

1966

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.

A temporary structure used in 1966 as part of the La Rural expo grounds was revived by one of his sons, Claudio, and was included as a centerpiece of a waterfront park inaugurated in 1999 in the Buenos Aires suburb of Vicente López as the Monument to the End of the Millennium.

1974

After 1974, he worked on "the city humanity needs," a plan for an above-ground metropolis supported by his hollow vaults for the purpose of reducing land use.

1980

He was also contracted by the Argentine government to design a self-contained city planned for Argentine Antarctica, though his design, presented in 1980, was never carried out.

1989

Williams died in Buenos Aires in 1989 at age 76, and was buried in Recoleta Cemetery.

1997

The house was declared a National Historic Monument in 1997.

2004

This failed to secure it adequate funding for its maintenance, however, and the historic property was ultimately abandoned, vandalized and gutted by fire in September 2004.

2005

The derelict building was cleaned and secured by the municipal government in 2005.

Works to recover the landmark began in earnest in late 2021, and on April 20, 2023, the fully restored Bridge House was reopened by President Alberto Fernández.