Eje cívico y arquitectura institucional moderna en la ciudad de San Juan, Argentina: su planificación y concreción post-terremoto de 1944

Abstract

An earthquake in 1944 destroyed the city of San Juan and gave rise to its morphological change. The subject of this work is the design, opening and materialization of the civic axis of this city, Paseo Central Avenue, and the main institutional buildings of modern architecture that were built up in it after 1944 until the mid- 1970s. The assumption is that this avenue, non-existent in the pre-earthquake urban trace, conforms as an expression of modernity as of the intervention of the state in the planning and re-construction of the post-earth quake city. The objective of this work is to promote the knowledge and diffusion not only of the civic axis, declared in a stretch, "asset of national historical interest", by decree number 1594/2008 of the Argentine Republic Presidency but also of a selection of architectural buildings that constitute the living heritage of modernity in San Juan.