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ANTONIO BONET. In 1942,
Bonet participates in the constitution of the Organization of the Integral House
in the Argentine Republic. The idea of the formation of its work ties it with
the ideas suggested by Him Corbusier throughout the process of preparation of
the Plan of Buenos Aires. "the routine servitude of conception submissive the
outsider does not exist any worthy of consideration argument seriously nor even
in that some Argentineans live" So that the initial note of a universal
modulation does not take place in our country, whose hope appears in the
immediate perspective of the world: on the area in catastrophe of the cities
martyred by the war, the genius of the man already begins to project the new
forms of the human coexistence. On the contrary, the essential circumstance of
our historical youth and the one of our adventurous peace, locate to us in the
moral obligation to create new forms of life anticipating us to whatever of
project and of dream it even subsists in a world of towns in flames and ruins.
This thought of Bonet, is taken from the N° Notebook 1 of OVRA, titled Study of
the Contemporary Problems for the organization of the integral house in the
Argentine Republic. Without a doubt, the text gathers part of the optimism of
the Austral Group. But while this one was directed to the architects and its
problems, in the OVRA manifesto the horizon is ampler, next to certain
discovered nonfree of messianism of the American, coincident with other similar
initiatives in other places of the continent.
Reflections of Antonio Bonet on the architecture: "the architectonic
elements that will form the new city will be formed by a series, numerous, of
structures little systematized. Those structures will be able to arrive to the
maximum from their aesthetic, technical perfection and economic, since besides
to be placed in free lands, its study must be based on the progressive
improvement of such types, so as it has become in the great architectures of the
past. Within those structures, that will be the expression of the effort of the
social man, to obtain the order and the harmony of its time, never will be
obtained to a freedom reached after the development of the life of the man like
individual, and the one of its institutions. It is well certain that we are even
far from that stage, But does not fit doubt that once demonstrated that the
modern buildings can be developed in simple structures, more and more seemed to
each other, it will make the importance powerful of this system. Those buildings
will be used and the equipped for but diverse uses, without aging with it,
although they will have to work at a time whose social programs, industrial,
etc., are in permanent evolution. I am going to finish with the confession of my
conviction of which to group the programs for the unification of the structures,
is something enormously difficult, but some is no doubt that it is the way that
will take us forms to the true architectonic of our time. in that the diverse
social programs will be developed freely, cultural hygienic, etc., that must
form the structure of the new society. |
