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Casa sobre el Arroyo: A Modernist House's Evolution

The story of Casa sobre el Arroyo, designed by Amancio Williams and Delfina Gálvez Bunge de Williams, illustrates how a building's structure, circulation, and site relationship can endure through changing uses and conditions.

Commissioned in 1943 for Amancio's father, the house in Mar del Plata, Argentina, integrates the Las Chacras stream into its design. A concrete arch spans the water, elevating the living areas and making the stream an integral part of the inhabitant's experience.

The house's design prioritized its unique site, using the stream as an organizing element rather than an obstacle. This approach allowed the structure, circulation, and connection to the landscape to remain central to the house's identity over its nearly eighty-year history, even as its use and ownership evolved.

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