Martha Levisman
Martha Levisman de Clusellas (18 August 1933 – 13 June 2022)
Biography
From 1952 to 1958, she studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires, together with Beatriz Goldestein, Nely Cueitel and Nora Monreal. It was during the period of transition when some of the staff were teaching the Beaux Arts style while others were beginning to turn to Modernism, especially César Janello and Tomás Maldonado who taught integral design. She was also able to benefit from the lectures given by Odilia Suárez and Enriqueta Méoli, both bent on following emerging trends.[3]
She was on the point of leaving Buenos Aires to embark on further studies in
Between 1998 and 2002, Levisman was Director of ARCA, Argentina's architectural archive centre (Asociación Civil para el Archivo de Arquitectura Contemporánea Argentina);[3] she also served as ARCA's president.[5] As an archivist she has worked for the Bustillo family.[6] Levisman has conducted research as a historian into architecture, in one instance arguing that the "Bariloche style" was "created by a group of affluent Argentine developers inspired by 'colonization, illusion and fantasy'".[7]
As an architect, she was a member of her husband's firm. The most important completed works included the Antorchas Head Office (1985), the TAREA Foundation building (renovated in 1987) and an addition to the Antorchas complex to house a photograph gallery, completed in 1991. In 1989, she was commissioned to complete work on the National Library, a sizeable project which entailed redrafting plans for the interiors which had been mislaid.[3]
References
- ^ Adiós a Martha Levisman, guardiana de la obra de Bustillo (in Spanish)
- ^ Hispanic Institute in the United States 2009, p. 89.
- ^ a b c d e "Martha Levisman" (in Spanish). Un día / una arquitecta. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ^ Segre 1991, p. 295.
- ^ Sierra 2012.
- ^ Architectural Digest. John C. Brasfield Publishing Corporation. 2001. p. 171.
- ^ Revista hispánica moderna. Casa de las Españas, Columbia University. 2009. p. 89.
Bibliography
- Hispanic Institute in the United States (2009). Revista hispánica moderna. Casa de las Españas, Columbia University.
- Segre, Roberto (1991). América Latina fim de milênio: raízes e perspectivas de sua arquitetura. Studio Nobel. ISBN 978-85-85445-01-0.
- Sierra, Marta (8 May 2012). Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-137-26085-7.