Julio Vilamajó

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Julio Agustin Vilamajó Echaniz (born July 1, 1894 in Montevideo , † April 12, 1948 or April 23, 1948) was a Uruguayan architect .

Life

Vilamajó, son of Ramón Vilamajó, from the French Perpignan , and the Eustaquia Echaniz from the Spanish San Sebastián , had two siblings named Ramón and Estrella . He began his education at the school on the Montevidean streets of Agraciada and Asencio . From there his educational path led him to university. On December 24, 1915, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Universidad de la República , which had not yet been divided into the engineering and architecture areas . In addition to his work as an architect, he also worked as a lecturer from 1917. In 1920 he won the Gran Premio de Arquitectura faculty competition . From July 1921 to November 1924 - and thus longer than originally planned - he then traveled to Europe, which took him to France, Barcelona, ​​Andalusia, Italy and Greece. On May 3, 1930, he married Mercedes Pulido . In 1935 he designed the prefabricated Vibro Econo system from modulated elements made of reinforced concrete and had it patented.

Vilamajó's building projects have found their way into Uruguayan architectural history. Among his 67 works are numerous buildings categorized as Monumento Histórico Nacional . Much of this construction activity, which was partly carried out with the assistance of other architects, extends to the various barrios of Montevideos .

In the 1920s he was responsible for the construction of the Casa Pérsico , the Palacio Santa Lucía , the Casa Juan R. Domínguez and the Centro de Almaceneros Minoristas . In the following decade, the Casa Vilamajó in Parque Rodó , the Edificio Juncal and the building of the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying of the Universidad de la República were built under his aegis . The construction of the residential building for Nicolás Dodero on Bulevar Artigas and Tabaré in 1939, which has since been demolished , also took place during this period. In the last decade of his work, he built a house for Miguel Debernardis in Punta del Este in 1941 . The commercial extension of the Confitería La Americana should also be emphasized. From 1945 onwards, Villa Serrana was designed and built as a European-style resort under his leadership .

He also worked as a consulting architect on the conception for the establishment of the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. Besides Oscar Niemeyer , he was the only South American architect on this ten-person body.

Vilamajó's students included Ildefonso Aroztegui and Mario Payssé Reyes .

Web links

Commons : Julio Vilamajó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c HERMANO JULIO VILAMAJÓ y el simbolismo de la Rotonda. ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved December 25, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.masoneriadeluruguay.org
  2. ↑ a b c d e "Un arquitecto uruguayo de excepción - Julio Vilamajó" by César J. Lousteau ( Memento of the original of December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed December 25, 2013 (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bse.com.uy
  3. ^ A b El arquitecto Julio Vilamajó (Spanish), accessed December 25, 2013
  4. ↑ Arq. Julio Vilamajó (Spanish), accessed December 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Vilamajó, Julio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilamajó Echaniz, Julio Agustin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1948 or April 23, 1948