Let's follow the South American way

摘要

I have never been to Uruguay. Now, I very much want to. My sudden desire springs from getting to know - in books, plans, drawings and photographs - the work of the engineer-architect Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). Many of you will be acquainted with Dieste's exemplary warehouses, sports halls, farm buildings and bus depots in Uruguay and neighbouring Brazil, but these are new to me. Most of all, my eye has been caught by the mesmerising church of Cristo Obrero (Christ the Worker) crowning Atlantida, an ocean resort 45km from Montevideo, and consecrated in 1958.