Edificio de la Facultad de Arquitectura, University building in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Edificio de la Facultad de Arquitectura is a long horizontal building of pale stone or concrete set behind a grassy bank in Parque Rodó. Its facade is a grid of tall, narrow vertical piers forming deep recesses with dark rectangular windows; the left section is taller under a flat overhanging roof slab, with a lower wing of the same design extending right. It was designed by Román Fresnedo Siri and Mario Muccinelli.
Architecture studies began at the Universidad de la República in 1886 within the Faculty of Mathematics. A 1938 public competition for a dedicated building was won by Román Fresnedo Siri and Mario Muccinelli; construction ran through the 1940s and the building opened around 1946–1947. It was declared a National Historic Monument in 2000.
The faculty's choir, founded in the mid-1960s by Coriún Aharonian and revived in 1995, draws students, graduates and staff and sings Latin American popular music by composers such as Piazzolla and Vinicius. The institution also publishes the Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura and the Catálogos de Arquitectos Uruguayos.
The building stands on Bulevar Artigas in Parque Rodó, its long stone facade set behind a grassy bank. It is a working university faculty, so classrooms and workshops are open to enrolled students rather than the general public; visitors should arrange access in advance. The José Luis Massera annex, known as "El Faro", adds shared lecture rooms.
The 1938 competition that produced the building was won by Román Fresnedo Siri and Mario Muccinelli, and the complex opened between 1946 and 1947. In 2000 it was declared a National Historical Monument, and since 27 November 2015 it has carried the name Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism.
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