Art and Communication Centre
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The Art and Communication Centre in Buenos Aires
was initially established as a multidisciplinary workshop in August 1968 by Víctor Grippo
, Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernando Benedit, Alfredo Portillos, Clorindo Testa, Jorge Glusberg and Jorge González. Since 1968 Jorge Glusberg
is Director of the Center for Art and Communication. In 1972 the "Scuola de Altos Estudios del CAYC" was founded. In the seventies CAYC became an international center for the Pop art
-culture and the famous Architecture Museum (Museo de Arquitectura).
Well-known teachers at CAYC were Justus Dahinden
and Mario Botta
.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
was initially established as a multidisciplinary workshop in August 1968 by Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina...
, Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernando Benedit, Alfredo Portillos, Clorindo Testa, Jorge Glusberg and Jorge González. Since 1968 Jorge Glusberg
Jorge Glusberg
Jorge Glusberg is an author, publisher and curator as well as professor.Glusberg is longtime director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes MNBA in Buenos Aires and co-director of Comité Internacional de Críticos de Arquitectura CICA. In 2002 he was leader of the Buenos Aires Biennale...
is Director of the Center for Art and Communication. In 1972 the "Scuola de Altos Estudios del CAYC" was founded. In the seventies CAYC became an international center for the Pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
-culture and the famous Architecture Museum (Museo de Arquitectura).
Well-known teachers at CAYC were Justus Dahinden
Justus Dahinden
Justus Dahinden is a notable Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture.- Life :From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich , graduating in 1956 with his Ph.D. In 1955 he started his own architecture office in Zürich...
and Mario Botta
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano.-Career:...
.