UBA School of Medicine — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

The Faculty of Medicine was elevated to that rank in 1852, its first rector being Dr. Juan Antonio Fernández. It had its own first headquarters on the site that today is occupied by the Guillermo Rawson School, on Calle Humberto 1 ° 343 in the San Telmo neighborhood, inaugurated in 1858. This building was known in colonial times as the “Protomedicato”, founded in 1780 on land that had been part of the Betlemita Convent, whose church is still today on the opposite sidewalk.

With the inauguration in 1884 of the Hospital de Buenos Aires (the first Hospital de Clínicas) by the UBA, in the block that today is Plaza Houssay, the transfer of the Faculty of Medicine to a land facing each other on Córdoba Street was a matter of practicality. This second building, designed by Francisco Tamburini, was inaugurated in 1895. The old headquarters of the Faculty in San Telmo, passed to the National Council of Education, which transformed it into a primary school, a function that it still maintains.

On July 5, 1908, the extension, a symmetrical building, projected by Gino Aloisi for agencies such as the Institute of Legal Medicine and the Institute of Pathological Anatomy and Parasitology, among others, was inaugurated on the adjoining land (Córdoba avenue corner Junín). It is the building that currently houses the Faculty of Economic Sciences.

Both the Hospital and the Faculty quickly became obsolete and in 1905 the construction of a new Polyclinic was proposed to serve as a School for students. The project did not prosper, but the initiative was taken up by José Arce (future rector of the UBA), who was the main promoter of Law 11,333 that ordered the reorganization of the buildings in 1936.

For this reason, a Commission of doctors and architects was created, chaired by Arce, which quickly carried out a Blueprint Contest in which important architecture studios participated, such as Calvo, Jacobs and Giménez, Sánchez, Lagos and de la Torre. , Acevedo, Becú y Moreno and the renowned Alejandro Bustillo. However, the project chosen as the winner was Rafael Sammartino's, and the works began on March 3, 1939, in charge of the construction company GEOPÉ.

The old building of the Faculty projected by Tamburini was demolished in 1937. The great skyscraper of the Faculty of Medical Sciences would be enabled in stages, the first of them in 1944. Meanwhile, the building on Córdoba avenue, which does not it had been demolished, it was transferred to the Faculty of Economic Sciences, although the Judicial Morgue...

🇦🇷🇪🇸 La Facultad, junto al Hospital Universitario de Clínicas constituye un complejo de infraestructura impresionante en una zona muy bonita de la ciudad autónoma de Buenos Aires. Su cuerpo medico y académico es de los más prestigiosos del mundo y es muy importante la cantidad de estudiantes que vienen de otros países para estudiar el grado, posgrados o realizar sus residencias médicas que los forman en especialidades diversas. Lamentablemente, las crisis económicas recurrentes han afectado el mantenimiento edilicio, la actualización del equipamiento y los salarios, hecho que ha producido un éxodo importante de graduados a otros países, principales España e Italia, donde invariablemente triunfan por su sólida formación. 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Faculty, along with the University Hospital of Clínicas, constitutes an impressive infrastructure complex in a beautiful area of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. Its medical and academic staff is among the most prestigious in the world, and the number of students who come from other countries to study for undergraduate, graduate, or medical residencies, which train them in various specialties, is very significant. Unfortunately, the economic crises of the country have affected building maintenance, equipment updates, and salaries, resulting in a significant exodus of graduates to other countries, mainly Spain and Italy, where they invariably succeed due to their...

Hacia fines de la década del ’30, todavía se entendía que la universidad debía estar inserta en la trama urbana. Fruto de este criterio fue el concurso de 1937 para la Facultad de ciencias Médicas de la UBA, que establecía en sus bases la definición de un edificio en altura que ocupara toda una manzana. Reconocidos estudios de arquitectura participaron del concurso, como el de: Calvo, Jacobs y Giménez; Sánchez, Lagos y de la Torre; Acevedo, Becú y Moreno; y Alejandro Bustillo. El proyecto ganador fue el de Rafael Sammartino, diseñado dentro de un “estilo internacional” de la época, que combinaba art déco tardío con rasgos funcionalistas y un carácter monumental. La forma del edificio central contaba con escalonamientos y pieles de mármol. Era una síntesis de los diversos lenguajes arquitectónicos que se estaban manejando para edificios universitarios en esos años, que iban desde el racionalismo “náutico” hasta un clasicismo minimalista. Las obras comenzaron el 3 de marzo de 1939, a cargo de la constructora GEOPÉ, y en 1944 se inauguró la sede principal. El imponente proyecto también contemplaba al nuevo Hospital de Clínicas, y a una tercera manzana de edificaciones —que no sería completada— cruzando la calle José E. Uriburu. Allí están el Pabellón Costa Buero, el Instituto de Anatomía Patológica “Telémaco Susini” y el Instituto de Maternidad y Asistencia Social...