1951
Telefónica Argentina ENTEL Building, Buenos Aires
SEPRA (Santiago Sánches Elía, Federico Peralta Ramos and Alfredo Agostini)

Address: Avenida Corrientes & Maiupú
City: Buenos Aires
State: Capital Federal
Country: Argentina

CAD Design: Fernanda de Oliveira Vaccas

1951
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Louis Isadore Kahn

Address: 1111 Chapel Street at York & Chapel Street
City: New Haven
State: Connecticut
Country: USA

"Begun when he was 50 years old, this was Kahn's first major work and the one that launched his extraordinary, late-flowering career. It was also Yale's first modern building. The reserver, street-respecting exterior attracted little public notice at the time, but the exposed concrete ceiling and round stair tower with the form-work showing were such publicized - the first sign that many had seen of what would soon become familiar as Brutalism. The interior has now been altered - it was said that it "lacked elegance" - and the original floating partitions have been replaced with white walls, partly concealing the concrete frame. Out back a sculpture garden and the cout of Weir Hall make on of Yale's most idyllic outdoor places."

Yale's first modern building, and the first sign that many had seen of what would soon become familiar as Brutalism. The discreet exterior façade and entrance with exposed brick panels establishes a contrast with the interior spaces, defined by exposed concrete slabs of the floors, whose triangulated, tetrahedral shape in reinforced concrete. A central service zone includes a cylindrical hollow for the triangular stairs with a top lightning that repeats the triangle/circle motif.

BROWN, Elizabeth, New Haven A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1976; p. 69