Argentina was one of the invited countries, which gave an opportunity for its political leadership to show the economic strength of a nation that had experienced major modernisation and transformation in the preceding twenty years.

To build the Argentine Pavilion, the national government delegated the task of organizing a contest to an ad hoc committee chaired by the writer Eugenio Cambaceres.

In 1997, in the neighbourhood of Mataderos,[b] some remains of the Pavilion that had become part of the Fábrica Solana de Carros y Carruajes, 'Solana Factory of Cars and Carriages' were discovered.

Recent investigations carried out by a group of researchers of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, and another group of the Museo Archivo Tecno Educativo Lorenzo Raggio, 'museum and archive of technology and education Lorenzo Raggio', found that the former owner (Isidoro Adrets, a soldier and a blacksmith), had bought the remains of the Argentine Pavilion in 1945.

The sculpture is a feminine figure that personifies the Argentine Republic, with a Phrygian cap (a traditional symbol of liberty) and garments waving in the wind.