Auditorio Juan Victoria, Concert hall in San Juan, Argentina

The Auditorio Juan Victoria is a concert hall in San Juan designed to host performances and music education activities. The building contains a main concert hall seating around 976 people, an attached music school with multiple teaching spaces, and various other areas for different types of events.

The 1944 San Juan earthquake led to the creation of a reconstruction council headed by Juan Victoria, who obtained from President Arturo Frondizi an extra budget for the auditorium and 28 million pesos for its organ. The law funding it passed in 1959, tenders were called in 1962, and the building opened in 1970, designed by Federico Malvárez and Mario Para Baldi under Carmen Renard's supervision.

The Walcker organ, bought in 1967 from Ludwigsburg, was the first organ installed outside a church in Argentina and, by number of registers, the largest outside Buenos Aires province and Buenos Aires city. Organist Julio Perceval advised on its specification for the hall. The two foyers running north to south along the concert hall host yearly exhibitions of local, national and international visual arts.

The hall features a sloped seating arrangement that improves both sight lines and sound quality from any position. Visitors should check the current program before coming and allow enough time to arrive early if needed.

The ceiling features geometric wooden coffered patterns, and the side walls display rectangular relief patterns that distribute sound evenly throughout the space. These design details are both functional and give the hall a distinctive visual appearance.