The Bauhaus jewel that Argentina despises | …

One of the most influential cultural movements of the vanguard of the twentieth century touches a century. The Bauhaus is the school of architecture and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in April 1919 and has completely changed the international design parameters. Closed by the Nazis in 1933, the school devoted itself to creating a clean, unadorned style and designing high-quality, popular housing. Argentina has the only building of the hand of one of the Bauhaus masters, the Parador Ariston of Mar del Plata.

In 1948, the Hungarian Marcel Breuer dictated a seminar at the University of Buenos Aires when his Argentine colleague, Carlos Coire, proposed to him to design a social meeting point for the district of La Serena. The anecdote is that Breuer immediately drew the four-leaf "clover" that characterizes the inn. The work was done by Chur and Eduardo Catalano. Breuer had studied at Bauhaus and led the furniture design team. Under his leadership, the iconic Wbadily chair was created. In 1928, he moved to Berlin to devote himself to architecture, but after Adolf Hitler took power, he accompanied his fellow Weimar members to exile in the United States.

The construction of the southern area of ​​Mar del Plata was an immediate success, both in its original form and its concrete, wood and glbad plant, as well as its dual function of day restaurant and night disc. At its peak in the 1950s, the Ariston had a rotating dance floor and each guest was given a talcum bag to be able to dance barefoot without slipping.

As with other heritages of the same region and style – Casa del Puente, for example – the weather was hard with Ariston. It was first divided into three restaurants, which filled it with aggregates, then it was abandoned to the vandals, who burned it several times. Today, only the original concrete remains, with all the walls uprooted or burned. A campaign seeks to have the hostel declared a heritage and receive consolidation and restoration.