For example, white buildings with a red stripe at the bottom and tile roofs are something I strongly associate with Michoacán and parts of Jalisco. Colorful traditional architecture with Guanajuato. Pink volcanic rock with Zacatecas. And unfinished, unpainted buildings with exposed rebar with the Estado de México.
What's an architectural feature you associate with a particular region I'm your country?
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Colonial Spanish architecture: the Northwest. It’s the part of Argentina where colonial Spanish architecture survived, unlike other regions where most was demolished to give way to French, Italian and other architectural styles. We could add Cuyo region too.
Alpine style: Western Patagonia, especially Bariloche, San Martin de los Andes and neighboring towns. Most buildings follow an Alpine-German-like style.
Wood houses: very common in southern Patagonia, like Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz.
Were other European styles favored due to migrants, or did your government just go on an architectural bender like ours did with Porfirio Diaz and Art Nouveau?
The national government enacted several policies to erase the Spanish colonial past (which was seen as backwards) and looked at France and England as role model.
So the government basically demolished most of the colonial buildings, built big boulevards and parks, and along companies and the elite hired European architects and urban designers to build on different architectural styles, especially French Academicist and Art Nouveau.
At the same time there was a mass arrival of immigrants from Europe who also followed similar architectural styles.
Ah. Interesting. So had these policies not gone into effect, Argentina would've looked a lot more "traditionally Spanish".
Not so much since we never been an important Spanish colony and were very relegated, unlike Mexico, Peru, Colombia or other important colonies that had entire cities built by the Spanish.
Here there were just small cities/settlements scattered throughout the territory with few buildings.
The Argentine modern state was almost built from scratch after the 1860s with mass immigration. Until then we had fewer inhabitants than Chile lol
Beaux-Arts architecture for BA?
It’s the “default” architecture of Argentina (the dominant region of the country: Buenos Aires, Rosario and all of the central area).
I think people associate “regional architecture” with specific architecture from some regions that is more special, like Spanish colonial architecture in the northwest or Alpine architecture in the south.