In the room of his study, located on Lafinur street almost in front of the Evita museum, Berardo Dujovne speak harmoniously about recognition as Outstanding personality of the City of Buenos Aires in the field of culture by the Buenos Aires Legislature.
While the UBA exvicerrector AND EXDECANO DE LA FADU He already carries a decoration of the French Legion of Honor as a gentleman, this is the first great tribute in his country.
“It generates great joy and gratitude at the same time because it is giving it the legislature of the city where I have developed much of my life, both in the professional and academic field. That it is the city of Buenos Aires for me has A special meaningit is very rewarding. ”
That is the excuse to compose a brief and perhaps non-tan-justa semblance of his trajectory from the die-cut pieces that Berardo Dujovne is narrating: he studied in the BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL SCHOOLhe took paint classes, liked mathematics and his father was an engineer. “I was giving me an architect …” justifies.
First, the beginning
Israel Dujovne He already had a study when Berardo graduated. But perhaps no matter his discharge and his income, in 1955, because since then and until today he continues actively linked to the great house of studies. And if we count the National College, which depends on the University of Buenos Airesthey are even more …
“Soy Emeritus Professoranother great honor that gave me the UBA. I am giving urban project, a postgraduate one that is virtual from the pandemic. Before I went to Fadu twice a week. ”
Of that first era reminds Jorge Erbin. “It makes me sad because there is no longer, we were very close. Not only because they grouped us alphabetically. And we continued a very nice relationship. That he worked on the one hand and I, on the other. But when he had the chair I sometimes went to visit and he came too. We had a very nice round trip.”
Odilia Suárez It is the name that appears instantly before the consultation of someone who marked him. “She was an excellent teacher, then we established a very good relationship over time. I was a teacher of her chair, I entered by contest and really, it was a very important figure and perhaps not entirely recognized.”
To the question about his wife, mother of her four children and partner in the study Dujovne Hirschanswers: Silvia I met her before the Faculty, let’s say. She is less than me, and then I reunited her when we studied. We didn’t get boyfriends so right away. ”
The course of history
Recently graduated, Dujovne obtained a French government scholarship And a year passed in France, studying a postgraduate degree “there was a dilemma: stay or return.” Because I was already married and had to decide on the future of the two.
But he came back. And in “an act of total unconsciousness, newcomer, we introduce ourselves to contest to remodel the center of Buenos Aires, which had called the municipality of that time. He intervened Regulatory plan, Where was Odilia. We left seconds. And as a result, she invited me to work in the plan. ”
What he described as unconsciousness because “it was for bigger and more formed people” was an audacity that perhaps changed a good part of the course of its history.
After that daring, He joined his father’s study. And then Silvia joined. “We took the role of responsible for the project area and the engineers took more of the works and the relationship with the outside. Thus we started.”
After the death of Israel in 1975, they continued in the paternal study until 1981, when They formed their own. Today also, somehow, familiar with the incorporation of Your daughter Maria.
Overflow
“We did this building. We have our spaces and we come to study every day. We have enough work,” he says before listing Some works and projectssuch as the Tower in José Hernández and Arribeños, that of Paraguay and Armenia or that of Oath and forced. “We are with three average scale projects in Punta del Este,” adds.
Berardo remarks specifically an aspect of work: “We have made some Recycling or important refunctionalizations. One projects from recognizing the logic of the building and reaches solutions that would not have arrived if it had started from scratch. How is an abandoned factory transform into a housing or offices building? That is a challenge that gave me great satisfaction, ”he says and quotes the case of the cotton, of the same developer with which they made the lighthouse tower.
In so many decades, there is an extensive list. But there is Two typologies that were, for now, on the board (appealing to the nostalgia that emanates from that word).
“On one occasion we project A covered stadium That was not done later. But without a doubt, what I would have liked to do is some Building dedicated to teaching. Although well, there are certain issues that have not been given to us. ”