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Testa, Clorindo
(b Naples, 10 Dec 1923). Argentine architect and painter of Italian birth. He came to Argentina in 1924 and subsequently graduated in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires (1948). After working with the team developing a master-plan for Buenos Aires, he went to Italy to paint (1949–51) on a scholarship from the University of Buenos Aires. His stay there was probably instrumental in the development of his approach to the designing of ‘architectural spacescape promenades’. He then returned to Buenos Aires to begin his architectural career. Working with different partners on nearly every project, Testa became known as Argentina’s most important designer in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a specialist in competition entries and won more than 20 first prizes for projects covering health, housing, education, commercial and other fields. A characteristic of his work, deriving from his early experience in urban planning and design, is the way each building is considered not in isolation but as an element in the urban environment, implying a design approach based on topology rather than Euclidean geometry. This can be seen, for example, in his early design for the Cámara Argentina de la Construcción (1952; with Dabinovic, Gaido and Rossi), Buenos Aires, or his plans for the development of Catalinas Norte (1959–60), Buenos Aires. In the latter project he proposed continuous multi-level podia and bridges to relate the cluster of towers within the city, but these elements were not included in the final design.
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