Williams' Family

AMANCIO WILLIAMS AND DELFINA G. DE WILLIAMS
Amancio Williams was the Argentinean architect that designed this paradigmatic house between 1943 and 1945. Nevertheless, it is thought that this project has a co-author, the architect Delfina Galvez Bunge, Amancio's wife, despite the denial of shared authority she's made in several interviews since she's never wanted to be recognized as a protagonist in her husband's projects, (the only merit she's assigned to herself was for furniture and landscaping.)
Amancio Williams was born the 19th of february of 1913. After three years of studying engineering and have given up to dedicate himself to aviation, he decided to start a new degree: architecture.
During his way he met very famous architects such as Le Corbusier, and he is nowadays the Argentine architect who had the greatest significance in the academic world.
His interesting projects symbolize a passionate commitment to the relationship between rigor and the aesthetics of modernity.
For him the most important thing was not the work itself but the thought that informs that work, and because of this, despite the fact that most of his works haven`t been constructed, they were, and are, inspiration to other architects.
In one occasion he said: "I haven't built many of my projects but others will."
"It is not too important that I do not see my projects materialized. The only thing that counts is that my studies will survive me and can be carried out by others"
He incorporates new nuances into the discourse of Modernity, such as "working freely in space, handling oneself freely in three dimensions, seeking its true expression in technique, working with a sense of unity and synthesis".
La Casa del Arroyo was his very first project and it was built and also design during the war.
It was commissioned by his father, the musician Alberto Williams, and it is a constructed evidence of the capacity to establish a link between the modern rationality of human beings with nature and its topography, establishing a dialogue between architecture and nature.
As Amancio Williams used to say:
"Cities must give back to men what they take away: light, air, sun, joy, space and time"
"we feel the need to see greener, to see a flower, a plant, a tree, and the ultimate luxury: the horizon, a luxury for which we lost all kinds of hope some time ago."

ALBERTO AND AMANCIO WILLIAMS
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