Enseñanza y utopía. Iniciativas asociadas en la arquitectura moderna uruguaya

Abstract

The emergence of utopian ideas in modern Uruguayan architecture in the first half of the 20th century took shape in programmes of significant social interest, for example in education and the possibilities of applying them in different architectural infrastructures, which were understood as areas for the creation of a new man at one with nature. An illustrative example of this search for utopia is the Parques Escolares (school parks) concept developed by the philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira and which took material form in a number of preliminary architectural plans in the late 1920s. Some of the works carried out in the 1930s continued to put forward some of these ideas, even if they no longer had any direct link with the Parques Escolares projects. These works included the so-called Escuelas Experimentales (experimental schools), designed by the architect Juan Scasso.