Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916

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Castro, Martín Omar
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2017
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This article intends to provide an analysis of the process of building a house for the Argentine Congress between 1880 and 1916. After the presidential campaign and revolution of 1880, Argentina entered a new political era that saw the definition of a political system under the hegemony of the Partido Autonomista Nacional and the consolidation of the federal state. The defeat of porteño militias in 1880 represented the end of the project of a national state controlled from Buenos Aires and the transformation of the town into the federal capital of the country. This new role meant that the city now needed buildings to accommodate new functions, a house for parliament among them. This article explores the significance of building the Palace of Congress as part of a broader plan by politicians, urban planners and bureaucrats to place symbols of republican greatness in central areas of the new capital. This study also focuses on the parliamentary debates that discussed the allocation of public funding for the construction of congress and the importance of giving the new capital examples of monumental architecture as a way to underscore its new political status. Finally, this article analyses the impact of the debates in congress and in the press about allegations of embezzlement and corruption that surrounded the building of the Palace of Congress.
Fil: Castro, Martín Omar. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana ; Argentina
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CONGRESS
URBAN HISTORY
PUBLIC SPACE
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title Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
spellingShingle Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
Castro, Martín Omar
ARGENTINA
CONGRESS
URBAN HISTORY
PUBLIC SPACE
title_short Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
title_full Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
title_fullStr Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
title_full_unstemmed Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
title_sort Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880–1916
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CONGRESS
URBAN HISTORY
PUBLIC SPACE
topic ARGENTINA
CONGRESS
URBAN HISTORY
PUBLIC SPACE
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article intends to provide an analysis of the process of building a house for the Argentine Congress between 1880 and 1916. After the presidential campaign and revolution of 1880, Argentina entered a new political era that saw the definition of a political system under the hegemony of the Partido Autonomista Nacional and the consolidation of the federal state. The defeat of porteño militias in 1880 represented the end of the project of a national state controlled from Buenos Aires and the transformation of the town into the federal capital of the country. This new role meant that the city now needed buildings to accommodate new functions, a house for parliament among them. This article explores the significance of building the Palace of Congress as part of a broader plan by politicians, urban planners and bureaucrats to place symbols of republican greatness in central areas of the new capital. This study also focuses on the parliamentary debates that discussed the allocation of public funding for the construction of congress and the importance of giving the new capital examples of monumental architecture as a way to underscore its new political status. Finally, this article analyses the impact of the debates in congress and in the press about allegations of embezzlement and corruption that surrounded the building of the Palace of Congress.
Fil: Castro, Martín Omar. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana ; Argentina
description This article intends to provide an analysis of the process of building a house for the Argentine Congress between 1880 and 1916. After the presidential campaign and revolution of 1880, Argentina entered a new political era that saw the definition of a political system under the hegemony of the Partido Autonomista Nacional and the consolidation of the federal state. The defeat of porteño militias in 1880 represented the end of the project of a national state controlled from Buenos Aires and the transformation of the town into the federal capital of the country. This new role meant that the city now needed buildings to accommodate new functions, a house for parliament among them. This article explores the significance of building the Palace of Congress as part of a broader plan by politicians, urban planners and bureaucrats to place symbols of republican greatness in central areas of the new capital. This study also focuses on the parliamentary debates that discussed the allocation of public funding for the construction of congress and the importance of giving the new capital examples of monumental architecture as a way to underscore its new political status. Finally, this article analyses the impact of the debates in congress and in the press about allegations of embezzlement and corruption that surrounded the building of the Palace of Congress.
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