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at the beginning of the 19th century, though the academic style persisted until the first decades of the 20th century. Attempts at renovation took place during the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, when the European tendencies penetrated into the country, reflected in
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with Diego Peralta Ramos, Alfredo Agostini, and Santiago Sánchez Elía. In the following decades, the new generations of architects incorporate, as always, European vanguardist styles, and new techniques.
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Since the latter part of the 20th century, Argentine architects have become more prominent in the design of prime real estate projects in the country, such as the
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proliferated in Buenos Aires after 1950, though a new generation started rejecting their "brutality," and tried to find an architectonic identity.
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can be clearly appreciated in Buenos Aires, in the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches of
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Argentine neighborhoods are characterized by highly independent designs for each building. Most houses have individual designs.
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numerous important buildings of Buenos Aires, such as the Santa Felicitas Church by Ernesto Bunge; the
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is near to non-existent, generally reserved for subsidized houses made by the state for the poorest.
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The architecture of the second half of the 20th century continued adapting French
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National Congress of Argentina designed by Victor Meano.
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