Casa Capotesta is a house in

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, a coastal resort in the province of

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. It was designed in 1983 by the architect

Clorindo Testa Clorindo Manuel José Testa (December 10, 1923 – April 11, 2013) was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist. Testa was one of the leaders of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of the brutalist movement in Argen ...

, who was a prominent member of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of

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there. He designed the house for himself, as a summer residence. The name of the house is a play on ''capo'', Italian for "head" or "leader", and the surname of the (Italian born) architect. The house is situated about 200 metres from the beach. The house is a large central cube with three rectangular shapes protruding out at odd angles creating striking angular geometries. Testa's architecture of that period is said to have acquired a more reflective, poetically human dimension.

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Casa de veraneo - Capotesta/ 1983 / 1985
''The summer house - Capotesta'' (in Spanish). The page displays a few basic architectural sketches
Casas que hicieron historia
(in Spanish) ''"Houses that made history"'' Biblioteca de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Argentina Architecture in Argentina Brutalist architecture in Argentina Houses in Argentina Houses completed in 1985 {{Argentina-struct-stub