Webinar: Francisco Salamone

November 3, 2020   7:00PM

Francisco Salamone created some of the most outstanding works of Art Deco throughout Argentina, often in hidden pockets of Las Pampas.  This webinar invites you to travel to these locations online with Fabio Grementieri (Argentine Architect) as your expert guide!

Francisco Salamone (June 5, 1897 – August 8, 1959) was an Argentine architect of Italian descent who, between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine Pampas within the Buenos Aires Province. These buildings were some of the first examples of modern architecture in rural Argentina.

Fabio Grementieri, architect and preservationist based in Buenos Aires, is member of the National Commission of Monuments of Argentina and Head of the Preservation Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He has worked on different restoration and preservation projects of buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries and as advisor to several public and private institutions both in his country and abroad. He has lectured extensively on his expertise and is the author of several books on the heritage of Argentina. In 2009 he received the Henry Hope Reed Award of the University of Notre Dame.