Focus on Clock Tower (Central University of Venezuela) and discuss the Background.
The Venezuelan architect and designer Carlos Raúl Villanueva began designing the University City of Caracas campus in the 1940s, beginning construction in the 1950s. In a time of prevailing modernism in Latin America, Villanueva had a stylistic ideology for the project he called the "Synthesis of the Arts", combining the arts and architecture and creating artistic pieces that could also serve functional purposes.
Caracas modernism Carlos Raúl Villanueva University City of Caracas Venezuela