Alicia Cazzaniga (1928–1968) was an Argentine modernist architect. She is best known for her work in designing the

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. Alicia Cazzaniga was born in Buenos Aires on July 9, 1928. She attended the

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where she studied with Francisco Bullrich and Eduardo Polledo and

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. Cazzaniga, along with Bullrich, Polledo, Bailero and others founded the

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() in 1948. The group practiced Rationalism, forming contacts with members of the Bauhaus. In 1962, a design produced by Cazzaniga along with Francisco Bullrich, and Clorindo Testa was chosen for the new building of the National Library of the Argentine Republic. Alicia Cazzaniga died on February 28, 1968, in Buenos Aires.

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