Entre los despojos del peronismo. Esplendor y ocaso del Instituto de Filología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1927-1946)

Entre 1927 y 1946, el Instituto de Filología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires atravesó su época de esplendor, bajo la dirección del español Amado Alonso. En menos de veinte años, Alonso le confirió a su instituto no sólo una fuerte presencia en la cultura argentina, sino además un importante prestigio internacional. El Instituto se había hecho de un lugar reconocido en la cultura argentina; había sabido captar la atención de un nutrido grupo de discípulos; había comenzado a publicar sus propias colecciones de libros; se había puesto en contacto con la vasta gama que ofrecía la industria cultural argentina del período. Este fuerte arraigo en la Argentina le permitió alcanzar un alto puesto en la cultura hispanoamericana de su tiempo. Pero con la llegada del peronismo al poder el Instituto se vio sometido a fuertes presiones que llevaron a su virtual desmantelamiento.

Horas de frío disponibles para frutales criófilos en la región serrana de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

p.201-208

Cambios en el régimen de temperaturas mínimas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (período 1906 - 1992)

p.253-260

Variación de la temperatura máxima diaria primaveral en un espacio verde de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y su relación con la brotación de las plantas

p.285-290

Aplicación de un método objetivo al estudio de las comunidades de pastizal de la Depresión del Salado (Provincia de Buenos Aires)

p.27-40

Evaluación de la respuesta a la fertilización con nitrógeno en girasol, en un hapludol típico del partido de Vedia, Provincia de Buenos Aires

p.289-296

Guía de las aves silvestres de las Facultades de Agronomía y de Ciencias Veterinarias de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

p.191-216

Calibración de la tecnología de forzado de bulbos en Iris x hollandica Hoog para su cultivo como flor de corte en el norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires

p.189-197

Evaluación de la respuesta a la fertilización con fósforo y nitrógeno en girasol en un hapludol típico del partido de Vedia, provincia de Buenos Aires

p.231-241

Características agronómicas de cuatro híbridos de pepino en el ambiente de Buenos Aires

p.69-77

Los suelos de las comunidades vegetales de la región de Castelli - Pila, Depresión del Salado (Provincia de Buenos Aires)

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Reconocimiento de los principales clones de Alamo (Populus sp.) cultivados en la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina) a través de su morfología floral

p.115-126

Invernaderos florícolas en Colonia Urquiza (Partido de La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires) : I estructuras utilizadas

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Waterfront retrieved. Buenos Aires’ contrasting leisure experience

The southern waterfront of the city of Buenos Aires has been recovered. Now that more than 20 years have passed since the projects began, we are able to get some perspective on these developments and can confront them with the integral history of this area. The areas of Puerto Madero, Costanera Sur, Reserva Ecológica and Santa María del Plata have distinctive characteristics and these are reflected in urban landscape, architecture and especially through the use of these spaces. Real estate developments cohabit with public space, tourism with local leisure facilities, and the most expensive office floors with local choripan1 stands, all of these in a development in which the state, the municipality, international corporations and real estate companies have collaborated and discussed to produce a hybrid new space for the city.

Exposición Internacional 1910. Buenos Aires.: Didactic leisure and international recognition

International exhibitions were greatly responsible for the modernization of western society. The motive for these events was based on the possibility of enhancing the country’s international status abroad. The genesis of world exhibitions came from the conviction that humanity as a whole would improve the continual flow of new practical applications, the development of modern communication techniques and the social need for a medium that could acquaint the general public with changes in technology, economy and society .
Since the first national industrial exhibitions in Paris during the eighteenth century and especially starting from the first Great Exhibition in London’s Hyde Park in 1851 these international events spread steadily all over Europe and the United States, to reach Latin America in the beginnings of the twentieth century . The work of professionals such as Daniel Burnham, Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets made the relation between exhibitions and urban transformation a much more connected one, setting a precedent for subsequent exhibitions.
In Buenos Aires, the celebration of the centennial of independence from Spain in 1910 had many meanings and repercussions. A series of factors allowed for a moment of change in the city. Official optimism, economical progress, inequality and social conflict made of this a suitable time for transformation. With the organization of the Exposición Internacional the government had, among others, one specific aim: to achieve a network of visual tools to set the feeling of belonging and provide an identity for the mixture of cultures that populated the city of Buenos Aires at the time. Another important objective of the government was to put Buenos Aires at the level of European cities.
Foreign professionals had a great influence in the conceptual and factual shaping of the exhibition and in the subsequent changes caused in the urban condition. The exhibition had an important role in the ways of thinking the city and in the leisure ideas it introduced. The exhibition, as a didactic tool, worked as a precedent for conceiving leisure spaces in the future. Urban and landscape planners such as Joseph Bouvard and Charles Thays were instrumental in great part of the design of the Exhibition, but it was not only the architects and designers who shaped the identity of the fair. Other visitors such as Jules Huret or Georges Clemenceau were responsible for giving the city an international image it did not previously have.
This paper will explore on the one hand the significance of the exhibition of 1910 for the shaping of the city and its image; and on the other hand, the role of foreign professionals and the reach these influences had.