Type House Opened 1985 Construction started 1983 | Completed 1985 | |
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Similar La Tumbona House, Banco de Londres y América, La Perla Spa, Hospital Naval, National Library of the Argen | ||
Casa Capotesta is a house in Pinamar Partido, a coastal resort in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was designed in 1983 by the architect Clorindo Testa, who was a prominent member of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of brutalist architecture there. He designed the house for himself, as a summer residence. The name of the house is a play on capo, Italian for "head" or "leader", and the surname of the (Italian born) architect.
The house is situated about 200 metres from the beach. The house is a large central cube with three rectangular shapes protruding out at odd angles creating striking angular geometries. Testa's architecture of that period is said to have acquired a more reflective, poetically human dimension.