NATION REPORT PART 2

Rigo Cardenas

In the 1930s, Colombia began to

embrace modern architecture. The new

Liberal Party government tore down

many older buildings to reject the

conservative past. In their place, it

constructed modern buildings with an

international flavor.

Colombian architecture reflects

seventeenth century Spanish colonial

origins. Regional differences derive from

those found in Spain.

ARCHITECTURE

Until the mid-1940s, most Colombians lived in

single-family dwellings bult of cinder blocks

and covered with an adobe made of clay, cow

manure, and hay. Uncontrolled urban growth

due to massive migration from rural areas

resulted in hughe informal settlements which

make up the bulk of Colombia's housing

problem up to the present time. Nontheless,

there have been a few notable examples of

high-density housing projects (aimed, however,

at the rising middle-classes) such as the Centro

Antonio Nariño, which followed the principles

of Le Corbusier or the Torres del Parque by the

famed architect Rogelio Salmona.

M O D E R N A R C H I T E C T U R E I N C O L O M B I A

The architecture in Colombia. Although in this

historical period Colombia one was affected by a

series of economic problems, nevertheless profit the

development of changes of republican type in his

physical and functional aspect. Raising topologies

derived from the baroque one in where the decoration

of the facades and new aspect of the space I publish

they were the most important elements at urban level.

In this period one is reflected all the sight

architectonic level in Europe in century XIX, in this

single reflection took into account the aesthetic one

from architecture in general without giving greater

importance to the process with which I get myself to

obtain that level. Bringing a this architecture that did

not adapt to the context of the urban means in which

it was and later it went away connecting.

ARCHITECTURE

SOURCES

http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Colombia

http://

architecture.arqhys.com/history/colombian.html

http://

architecture.arqhys.com/history/colombian.html