Towards the end of the nineteen-fifties, Florida was a street with numerous distinguishing features, one of those strange urban melting pots that miraculously acquire harmony and personality. People visited it for its glamorous shops and also for its art galleries. It attracted the book lovers who have always lived in Buenos Aires, and Borges lectured there at a venue like Ver y Estimar, as did many other lesser known figures. […] At 936 Florida, almost opposite the square, looking south, were the windows of a dealership of the renowned scooters Siambretta – clashing magnificently with the “high class” of the surroundings.

Maybe because the surroundings impose themselves, maybe because any context is always historic, one day the commercial premises closed down for refurbishment, and the building went on to house an unexpected, unknown-of institute. The building was modernized and, at first, the Torcuato Di Tella Institute quietly blended in with the life and sights of Florida street. But soon