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Vilamajo House Museum

The Vilamajo House Museum is the Montevideo home Julio Vilamajo built for his family, later opened as the first modern dwelling to become a museum house in Uruguay.

building

built

1930

Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

House museum

house museum residence masonry stucco timber House museum

Brick Stucco Timber

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Vilamajo House Museum gallery

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Julio Vilamajo

1894-1948 · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Role: lead architect

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Julio Vilamajo was one of Uruguay’s best known architects, linking local domestic and civic work to international modernist conversations.

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Julio Vilamajo

studio · Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Role: designer

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Julio Vilamajo extends the Uruguayan corpus as a studio-level record for domestic, civic, and institutional modern architecture.

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