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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

21°C · 11.0h daylight · 22 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina · City-level coordinates only

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La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Climate: 21°C · 11.0h daylight · 22 km/h wind

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Casa Curutchet

1955 · La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Richard Meier & Partners ArchitectsRichard Meier & Partners Architects

1963 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19551963
PlaceLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaNew York, New York, United States
Place contextLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaRepresentative site: Frankfurt-Süd, Frankfurt-Süd, Germany
Climate21°C · 11.0h daylight · 22 km/h wind14°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Museum Angewandte Kunst
FocusHouse-clinic21 works in corpus
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  • Richard Meier
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Notable works

  • Museum Angewandte Kunst
  • Des Moines Art Center
  • Frederick J. Smith House
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
Typologies
  • house
  • modernism
  • residential building
  • museum
  • house
  • campus building
  • performance venue
  • temple
  • sacred space
  • civic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • adobe
  • glass
  • stone
Carbon signals

Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Adobe, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Adobe
  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible11 of 11 recorded works are publicly accessible
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