Qualla: Casa del Puente https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casa-del-puente-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Casa del Puente https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente Casa del Puente: Introduction https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente/ Photo credit DagosNavy, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most houses press down on the ground. This one steps over it. In a wooded lot in Mar del Plata, the Argentine architect Amancio Williams faced a problem other builders would have solved by filling in the stream that crossed the site. Instead, in 1942, he made the stream the whole point. He set the house on a single bowed slab of concrete, an arch that vaults the water like a bridge, so the home floats above the brook called Las Chacras with rooms suspended in the trees. He called it Casa sobre el Arroyo - House on the Stream. Everyone else has called it the Bridge House ever since.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casa-del-puente-wp/69pp-casa-del-puente-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Casa del Puente: A House for His Father's Music https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente/ Photo credit Ezarate, CC BY-SA 3.0. The commission was personal. Williams designed the house as the permanent residence of his father, the composer Alberto Williams, one of the founders of Argentine classical music. The arched span was not merely structural poetry; the curved underside was conceived as a soundproof...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casa-del-puente-wp/69pp-casa-del-puente-a-house-for-his-fathers-music.mp3 0:06 2 full Casa del Puente: The Logic of the Arch https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 3.0. Look closely and the structure tells you exactly how it stands. A 9-by-27-meter weatherized concrete box - about 30 by 90 feet - rests its weight on the curved arch at its center and on bulkheads at either end. There are two front doors, one at each end of the bridge, opening ont...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casa-del-puente-wp/69pp-casa-del-puente-the-logic-of-the-arch.mp3 0:06 3 full Casa del Puente: The Architect Who Built Almost Nothing https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente/ Photo credit Ezarate, CC BY-SA 3.0. Here is the paradox at the heart of the house. Amancio Williams is one of the most revered figures in Argentine architecture, yet he built astonishingly little. His drawings overflowed with visionary schemes - suspended office blocks, a hall for spectacle, an airport floating ove...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casa-del-puente-wp/69pp-casa-del-puente-the-architect-who-built-almost-nothing.mp3 0:06 4 full Casa del Puente: Ruin and Resurrection https://qualla.com/casa-del-puente/ Photo credit Tonykamo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Genius does not guarantee care. Declared a national historic monument in 1997, the house was nonetheless left without the money to maintain it, and it slid into abandonment - vandalized, stripped, and finally gutted by fire in September 2004. For years it stood as a blackened con...

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