Abstract
When Villanueva worked in the Integration of the Arts project for the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, he moved from the idea of ‘synthesis of the arts’ (where arts “preserved their traditional features in order to qualify something whose existence was prior to them and of which architecture was the previous framework”) to the idea of ‘integration of the arts’, which “created a new architectural–sculptural–pictorial organism which did not express hierarchy but the formal combination of the functional and the spatial as equal categories,” he took a transcendental step to open his architecture to experimentation in the field of modern art.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Art and architecture, Modern art, Carlos Villanueva, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, Integration of the arts, Venezuelan modern architecture, Urban art.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 46-52
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.SBSUOF7N