1916: Italy-Chile, Barison-Schiavon and their buildings in the centenary

Abstract

The building work of Italian architects Barison and Schiavon in Chile is analyzed, providing new data on two buildings built in 1916. In the so-called palace Baburizza, vernacular elements seen in the Chilean architecture of the late nineteenth century were assumed, beyond the use of Italian liberty repertoires, while in the Valle palace, forms of the Venetian medieval architecture are not copied, as it has been repeated in historiography. On the contrary, their models are in the nineteenth-century “neo-medieval” works and, with the highest incidence, in the repertoires of the contemporary architecture of Liguria, from where the promoter of the work came. Finally other unpublished data on the trajectory of these two architects are given, especially from its relations with contemporary architects such as Esteban Harrington Arellano and Josué Smith Solar.