Sun and desert in the architecture of Enrico Tedeschi

Abstract

The Italian architect Enrico Tedeschi settled in Argentina in the second postwar period, where he mostly developed a teaching career, although articulated with unrelenting practical and theoretical explorations. This article reviews a period of his career that began with his settlement in the Cuyo region, in the mid-1950s, simultaneous with his focus on architecture and urbanism towards an environmental approach that delved in deeper in the next two decades. Within the framework of a review of the more classical disciplinary assumptions, Tedeschi's choice for technological research in solar energy and the study of the natural environment as a conditioner of shape was the corollary of the gradual displacement of his first inquiries into climate and landscape towards a scientific and environmental approach.