FASHION

In Buenos Aires, since 2001, is held twice a year the most important fashion event in Argentina, the Buenos Aires Fashion Week

The city also held the Argentina Fashion Week and Buenos Aires Moda event 

The city boasts the Metropolitan Design Center.

Benito Fernandez was born in May 27, 1960 in Buenos Aires 

He is one of the most important designers in the country

In 1985 he traveled to Paris where he got his degree in Fashion Design

in the Paris American Academy

Nowadays he is a benchmark of modernity, prints and color

POPULATION

The province of Buenos Aires has 15,625,084 people, or 38.9% of the total population.

There are 14,450 inhabitants per square kilometer. 

In the province, there are 105 women for every 100 men

The foreign population of the province is 941,941 census. 

40% of the local population was not born in the city.

Among its inhabitants, Buenos Aires includes several of the most prominent writers of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century 

Adolfo Bioy Carasares 

Silvina Ocampo 

Marco Denevi 

Oliveiro Girondo 

Jorge Luis Borgues 

Macedonio Fernández 

The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is a public university in Argentina. It's free.

It is one of the largest universities in Argentina and is considered as one of the most prestigious research centers in Latin America. You are currently Ranked 209 in the world rankings of the best universities and third in South America.

Four of the five Argentine Nobel Prize winners have been students and teachers of this University. 

About 30% of the country's scientific research is done in this institution 

A cultural event is the thread, decorative and popular art often used in contexts of tango, design and advertising.

MUSIC

MUSIC:

Buenos  Aires  is  mostly  known  by  the  Tango,  which  developed  in the  city. But  Folk, Pop, Rock  and  Classical  Music  are also poular.  Buenos  Aires  is  the  capital  of  a  musical  movement  named "La  Nueva Cancion" led  by  Mercedes Sosa.

Argentina  is  the  first  latin  american  country  that  had  an  own  rock  current,  that  was led by  groups like "Los Fabulosos Cadillac" or  singers  like  Fito Paez.This genre has  a  big  influence  from british  rock. The  movement  of  argentine  rock  began  in  1960 but  just  in 90  decade became popular  as  a  consequence of  fame  that  groups  as  Soda  Estereo  had.

Nowadays Electronic Music had  a  big  influence  in the  city  and gave  rise  to  a  new  movement  that  mix the  tango  and  electronic  music  named  "Electrotango". This  movement born  in 2007 and  the most  famous  group is  Gottan Project.

TODAY

TODAY:

World of tango.

The World Tango Championship is an international competition in which the tango dancers all over the world compete for the best tango dancer.

600 million people attend to this event.

it´s the biggest event in years.

CITY PROBLEMS

The growth of slums in Buenos Aires came from the international crisis of 1930 and peaked in 2001 due to internal crises in Argentina

Pollution of River Plate is one of the major health problems of the city

According to a study published by the IDB, Buenos Aires is among the cities with the worst quality of life offered in terms of public green space per inhabitant.

The city of Buenos Aires borders one of the most polluted rivers on the planet, the Riachuelo river.

In terms of mobility, education and hospital care, Buenos Aires is a very stable and well developed city. 

Buenos Aires has 34 free clinics and 90% of consultations in the public system are made in these establishments. The public health system in the city provides coverage to 21.9% 

INTRODUCTION

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Urban Art

Urban art.

In Buenos Aires is very important and respect the urban art, for the way in which their artist use it as a way of freedom and fun.

Since 2010, Street Art BA or SABA promotes and encourages the creation of art in any of it´s techniques (graffiti, stencil, sticker, etc.)in public spaces.

They art supported in the artist and in the effervescent, interested and passioned pucblic,that use this kind of art.

that public follow us, participating in our activities.

SABA wants to make this activity completaly legal witht the intention of make bautyful and recyclable the city with street art.

The philosophy of SABA is creat in space for exchange and growth in a context professional and idependent.

CIUDANZA:

Dance in urban places.

Invite the public to live and artistic intervention of the urban landscape.

Across the dance and the seeing artquitectonic centers.

This is called the bodies.

Arquitecture

Buenos  Aires  is  one  of  the  most  important  cities  in Latin America, and  it architecture  shows  it. The  city has 12 925 000 inhabitants.

Buenos Aires  is  named "The Paris of America" as  a  consequence of it architecture.

Satelital  Map 

The  urban profile  of  argentine  capital is markledy  Eclectic  with  some  mixtures  of  Art  Noveau and  Art  Decó. Also  the  skyscrapers  are  part  of  architectonic  characteristics, that  makes  of Buenos  Aires a balance  between  the  european style  and the  modernity.

One  of the  most  important  characteristics  of Buenos  Aires  buildings are  the domes, towers  and  mansards  that  were built as  a symbol of prestige  during the  XX century.

Buenos  Aires is  the  most  important port and  city   of  country, and the second economical, political and  cultural  centre in  Latin  America.

The city  was founded in 1536 by Pedro de Mendoza, but  just  during  the  last years  of XIX century the  city  had  important  changes as  a  result of  economic  prosperity.

The architecture  of  city shows  the  mixture of  cultures  that  got  together  in  Buenos Aires, it shows a complex relation between many factors.

The streets, buildings, squares and cafés define the identity of city that is a result of history.

The city evolve from differents migratory currents.The downtown and the business center has a regular trace, with square blocks that makes of this area an organized space.

Buenos Aires has 2113 streets and 640 squares.