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Francisco Tamburini

Italian architect

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history of Latin American architecture

  • Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
    In Latin American architecture: Academic architecture, c. 1870–1914

    In Buenos Aires, Francisco Tamburini remodeled the Casa Rosada in the late 1800s to become the offices of the president. This Beaux-Arts composition, with its central arch and side loggias, then became the standard for the institutions of government in the interior of Argentina: in Corrientes (a new…

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  • Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
    In Latin American architecture: Academic architecture, c. 1870–1914

    …Aires (1905–08; restored 2006–10), by Tamburini. This theatre’s sober exterior belies an opulent interior—with noteworthy acoustics—that was closely modeled on Charles Garnier’s Paris Opéra. New theatres were built in every city. In Buenos Aires as many as 20 were built, among these the Opera (1872), by Emilio Landois. In Montevideo…

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