Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy
Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy (Buenos Aires, 1914–1977) was an architect and urban planner, and the member of Grupo Austral most closely tied to housing and city planning. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires in 1937 he went to Paris with Juan Kurchan and worked in Le Corbusier's studio, where he met Antoni Bonet. Their work there on a master plan for Buenos Aires continued back home: Ferrari-Hardoy was appointed director of the city's master plan in 1947.
As a planner he also worked on the plans for Mendoza and San Nicolás and on the reconstruction of San Juan after the 1944 earthquake. He lectured at the National University of the Littoral, whose architecture school he helped reorganise in 1956, and at the University of Buenos Aires. As an architect he built a series of apartment buildings in Buenos Aires, from Los Eucaliptus with Kurchan (1941–1943) to buildings on Figueroa Alcorta (1951), Las Heras and Arenales (1958), and French (1965).
As a planner he also worked on the plans for Mendoza and San Nicolás and on the reconstruction of San Juan after the 1944 earthquake. He lectured at the National University of the Littoral, whose architecture school he helped reorganise in 1956, and at the University of Buenos Aires. As an architect he built a series of apartment buildings in Buenos Aires, from Los Eucaliptus with Kurchan (1941–1943) to buildings on Figueroa Alcorta (1951), Las Heras and Arenales (1958), and French (1965).
