O’Higgins 2319: changeable apartments in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1940-1941)

The changeable apartments in Belgrano is the first apartment building designed and built by Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, members of the Austral Group in Argentina, who returned home after having lived in Paris where they worked in Le Corbusier’s office. This unknown and radical project was published in August 1942 in the journal Tecné. This article intends to describe the design intentions of the architects, which materialized some of the Group’s endeavours. These explorations are a reflection of the work carried out in the Rue de Sèvres and of the Parisian context of the late nineteen-thirties.