The study began when Justo Solsona and Josefina Santos graduated as architects from the University of Buenos Aires in 1956. They began to work as Heads of Practical Works at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of that school. At the same time, together with other architects such as Ernesto Katzenstein, they created the Architecture and Planning Group ("GAP"), which in 1957 won a competition for public housing towers of the National Mortgage Bank in the La Boca neighborhood. In this way, the modality of participating in large competitions that the team would adopt from now on was consolidated.
In 1962 the recent graduates Flora Manteola and Javier Sánchez Gómez joined. In that year, they participated in the contest for the new National Library, winning second place.



Flora Manteola

Architect graduated at University of Buenos Aires (1962). She is part of studio Manteola, Sánchez Gómez, Santos, Solsona, Salaberry, Vinson Architecs since its creation. She is in charge of Work related to building recicling, projects for education, office and housing. She was member for many years of the Central Society of Architects Executive Committee.
She was Full Professor of Introduction of Project Development and Practice of Project (Common Basic Clicle at Buenos Aires University). She is a member of the Association of Jurors and Advisors of the Buenos Aires Central Society of Architects and the Association of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires. She has been invited as a lecturer at several academic and career centers. In 2016, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by the Central Society of Architects of CABA.

Javier Sánchez Gómez

Architect graduated in 1962 at the University of Buenos Aires. Inside the Studio MSGSSS Architects performs tasks of project, especially working on topics related to large complex of urban and suburban housing developments and recreation centers. Consulting Professor of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, in the Architecture Vertical Workshop Sánchez Gómez-Berdichevsky-Lopatín-Amette, from first to fifth course. He was Academic Secretary thereof and for two periods, representative of the Teaching staff on the Board. As a member of the College of Jurors and Advisors of the Central Society of Architects, he was jury in numerous architectural competitions. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by the Central Society of Architects of CABA, in 2016. He has been named Professor Emeritus at the UBA since 2016. He passed away in 2020.

Josefina Santos

Architect graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1956. Founding member of the GAP Studio which then gave rise to the Manteola, Sánchez Gómez, Santos, Solsona, Salaberry, Vinson Architects. She has developed her activity involved in different projects and competitions.
Professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires. Nationally recognized for high quality and standard of their projects.
Member of the Professional Council of Architecture and Urbanism, which was part of the Board during the decade 1988-1998.
She joined the Honorary Advisory Commission relations between the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires and the Councils of Architecture and Urbanism and Civil Engineering. Jury member of the College of Jurors and Advisors of the Central Society of Architects. She is recently retired.

Justo Solsona

Architect (UBA, 1956). He worked in teaching at the University of Buenos Aires to the mass resignation of 1966 went back to work as Professor in 1983. He currently directs the Master in Advanced Architectural Design at the Graduate School. Founding member of the Studio Manteola, Sánchez Gómez, Santos, Solsona, Sallaberry, Vinson Architects since 1966 whose most notable works are ATC, Mendoza stadium, the second prize of the National Library, the Prourban and Mulieris towers, and housing complexes as Aluar, Piedrabuena and Torres Rioja. Among his publications are: Do and say; Solsona. Notes for an autobiography; Modern Architecture in Argentina 1930-1950; Avenida de Mayo and La Escuelita (performed together). Since 1999, his paintings are exhibited in Cultural center Recoleta and Cultural Center Borges exhibitions. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Central Society of Architects (2009) and Guest of Honor by the National University of La Plata. Lifetime Achievement Award Jorge Glusberg XVI17 International Architecture Biennial Buenos Aires.