Juan Kurchan

On leaving the university in 1937, he traveled to Europe in the company of his colleague and friend Jorge Ferrari Hardoy[3] and completed his training in the studio of Le Corbusier, where he met the Catalan architect Antonio Bonet.

[4][5] In 1938 Kurchan joined Bonet and Ferrari Hardoy in setting up the es:Grupo Austral architectural practice.

In 1941, working in an architectural studio in partnership with Ferrari Hardoy, he created avant-garde designs for buildings such as a block of convertible apartments at O'Higgins 2319 in Belgrano, Buenos Aires.

This served as a testing ground for a set of principles, expressed in the 1939 Grupo Austral publication Voluntad y Acción, adapting Corbusian concepts for Argentine conditions.

[10] These principles were more fully realized in later buildings in Buenos Aires: an apartment block, Los Eucaliptos, in calle Virrey del Pino 2446 (1941/1943), a "renovation of the rationalistic language";[11] and individual houses at Conesa 1182 and Rivadavia 613.