Year Built: 1943-1946

Architect: Amancio Williams and Delfina Gálvez de Williams

Designed by Amancio Williams for his father, the musician Alberto Williams the house is the only surviving entire project built by the architect that survived. It appears as an attempt to concile rational modernity with nature. The structure, made of reinforced concrete and metal was designed in three dimensions with pure geometric forms resulting into a giant spatial scupture. It consists of three basic elements: a curved surface, the horizontal components of the main volume and the deck-terrace slab. This allowed continuous horizontal window openings all around the building that contrast with the concrete rough hammered surfaces, in one of the first brutalist works of the period. The interior is divided by the central line of two access stairs that separate the living area from bedrooms and services. Modern simplicity and functional elegance dominate finishings, equipment and furnishings of an obsessive design that got inspiration from local traditions and materials. The most original modern house of the 1940´s in this part of the world, the Casa del Puente is considered as a paradigmatic component of the architecture of the twentieth century and a mandatory reference of the Modern Movement in Argentina and in Latin America.