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ARCHTECTURE
The passion for architecture inherited by Carlos Páez
Vilaró from his father is almost an obsession.
The first hint of this fondness appeared when he reformed
the drawing of a wooden house, which had appeared in a
catalogue, for the
construction of his first workshop in Carrasco, Uruguay.
In the 50’s decade, he recycled and old water mill, in
Punta del Este, where the Conrad Hotel is situated today.
This place was his home for several years, but as it was
owned by the Government, he was obliged to share it with a
radio station.
This fact led him to look for a place in front of the sea
to keep away from noise and to feel himself free.
When he discovered the dazzling landscape in Punta
Ballena, he definitely knew that it would be the place to
build his workshop.
Casapueblo
 In
1958, Carlos Páez Vilaró initiated his project, in spite
that the place was quite lonely, with no electric light,
no water, no trees or
outlined roads.
The first construction was a tin-roofed hut where he kept
doors, windows and materials for the future house.
Then he built "La Pionera" (The Pioneer) helped
by his friends. This was his first atelier over the
rocking cliffs.
It was a house covered with wooden planks that he used to
gather on the shore after strong stormy days, helped by
the fishermen of the
place.
In the decade of the 60´s he decided to cover the wooden
walls with portland-cement and the building grew-up, with
rooms linked as the
wagons of a train.
He could integrate the construction to the landscape with
designs according to the levels of the mountain, without
affecting its nature.
He broke all kind of schemes, fighting against straight
lines and angles with the concept of a
"bread-furnace".
He built up the walls with his own hands and a simple
shovel.
Casapueblo continued stretching itself up to the sky or
towards the sea. It could only be compared to the birds’
flight.
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"I
give my apologyze to Architecture for being as free as the
oven-bird"
Carlos
Páez Vilaró
Multiple
Worships Chapel
 It
is stuated in a Private Cementery called "Los
Cipreses" (The Cypresses), in San Isidro, Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Carlos Páez Vilaró integrated his experiences and his
knowledge to construct this chapel, keeping in mind
special care oneach detail.
The stained glass windows created by the artist represent
a garden where birds, insects, fishes and coral reeves are
melted under an
exciting constellation of shooting stars, comets, planets,
suns and moons.
The open windows style is designed far from the classical
concept and the floor was thought as a
"garden-carpet" made of polished cement where a
simple drawing starts with a flower and ends with the sun.
The artist designed the chapel with its dome simulating an
oven-bird nest built with the most simple materials,
without display of
wealth and luxury.
Assuming that Carlos Páez Vilaró is a painter of life,
it was hard for him to create a chapel in a place for
burials
It was different from the task of building a house,
modeling a sculpture or painting a picture.
He worked bearing in mind the idea of two hands held in a
prayer.
It would be free open to all worships, races and idioms,
with its circular towers framed by the landscape and its
domes stretching up to
the sky.
"Bengala",
Casapueblo-Tigre
 In
the decade of the 80’s, Carlos Páez Vilaró was
attracted by an antique wooden house situated in a place
called "El Tigre" (-The Tiger), Argentina.
It has been imported from Ireland and installed in 1889.
He felt greatly impressed by the abandoned house which was
surrounded by a tangled vegetation.Undoubtedly, he decided
to undertake the challenge to remodel it.
A few meters from the old house, he started to build
"Bengala", his atelier-residence in Argentina.
He followed the style he had observed when building
Casapueblo in Uruguay, that means his
"archi-texture" with the concept of
the "bread-furnace". The
main housing sector is placed among leafy trees, magnolia
trees and strong palm trees.
The artist integrated each room to rows of arches,
devices, african figures, bronze murals and domes with
coloured glass windows.
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