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Curutchet House

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Curutchet House is a modernist residence and medical clinic in La Plata, Argentina, designed by Le Corbusier and built between 1949 and 1953 under the supervision of Amancio Williams. It was commissioned in 1948 by the surgeon Pedro Domingo Curutchet and applies Le Corbusier's five points of architecture, combining a ramp, a spiral staircase and a brise soleil on its main facade with a courtyard that separates the residence from the attached clinic, blending modernist design with the tradition of the Argentine courtyard house. The building now houses the Buenos Aires architects' professional association, the Colegio de Arquitectos, and is open to the public for tours. It was declared a National Historic Monument of Argentina in 2006 and inscribed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing of Le Corbusier's architectural work in 2016. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Single-family detached home 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
La Plata, Argentina 2
Completed Year
1949 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Curutchet House (Wikipedia)
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1. Curutchet House (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curutchet_House, lead definition
    The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier.
  • Wikipedia "Curutchet House" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
  • standing status determination
    The building now houses the Buenos Aires architects' professional association, the Colegio de Arquitectos, and is open to the public for tours.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1949)
    completion_date/completed = 1949 - 53
  • In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Modernist architecture
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2. Curutchet House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Single-family detached home)
    Wikidata item Q2982737, instance of (P31): single-family detached home
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374427): La Plata, Argentina
    Wikidata item Q2982737, property P131/P17 (location): La Plata, Argentina
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