Clorindo Testa
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| Clorindo Testa | |
| Born | 1923; Naples, Italy |
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| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Clorindo_Testa.html |
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(b. Naples, Italy 1923) Argentinean architect.
Clorindo Testa was born in Naples in 1923. Since that year he leved in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1948 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the National University of Buenos Aires where he studied the Beaux Arts tradition. He worked for the Buenos Aires Regulating Plan for one year, but left to study painting in Italy. Three years later, he returned to Argentina and established a private practice.
Ostensibly partnerless, Testa generally prefers to work collaboratively on his designs. His first works often echoes the bold forms and spatial manipulations of his paintings. His designs often incorporate a heavily textured concrete finish which predates and predicts the first Brutalist architecture. Also uses coloured closed forms.
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- Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p153.
- Muriel Emmanuel. Contemporary Architects. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ISBN 0-312-16635-4. NA680.C625.
