Earlier this summer, I traveled to Buenos Aires to give a lecture at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. It allowed me the chance to discover the cinematic Argentinian capital and visit a handful of projects by the school’s recently appointed dean, Marcelo Faiden, his partner Sebastián Adamo, and their team at Adamo-Faiden.
The city's urbanism is strongly defined by its grid, an inheritance from The Laws of the Indies—the colonization strategy of the Spanish Crown. Located at the southern border of an estuary between Uruguay and Argentina, Buenos Aires, rather than facing the marshy waterfront, is more a city organized as a patchwork of neighborhoods, all with their own character and scale. Over the centuries, its zoning, volatile economy, and repetitive, relatively narrow lots have produced varied and textured streets densely lined with trees, making strolling through Bueno Aires a pleasure.
