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Florencia Battiti and Cintia Mezza
August 2006
August 2006
We are about to venture into the fascinating world of the famed La Boca artists. This dossier reviews the gravitations of the modernization process of Argentine art throughout the last one hundred years, and the role that its growing cultural institutions played along the way. This investigative work has been authored by Florencia Battiti, and assisted by Cintia Mezza.
1872
General Rodríguez St.,
today Martín Rodríguez St.
today Martín Rodríguez St.
The docks and warehouses of Las Catalinas are built, and the national government encourages the creation of a new port in Buenos Aires with ample infrastructure. Among the projects presented we find that of Eduardo Madero and Luis Huergo. Eduardo Madero won the bid. The work for the new port starts on April 1, 1887, and ends on March 31, 1899. From then on, Puerto Madero sets off to become the center of the city –expanding towards the north– and leaving the southern suburbs relegated, especially where utility installations and services were concerned.
