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Bustillo, Alejandro
(b Buenos Aires, 18 March 1889; d ?Buenos Aires, ?1982). Argentine architect. He won a national award for painting (1912) while still a student of architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he graduated in 1913. He visited Europe in 1920. A classicist, he favoured the Greek Revival (he went to Greece as a guest of honour in 1970), but he worked in many styles in his vast oeuvre of more than 200 buildings. Bustillo’s declared aim of producing original designs within traditional styles brought him a wide range of commissions. In Buenos Aires, as well as many apartment buildings constructed both before and after World War II, he designed offices, hotels and banks, including the Banco de la Nación (1944), which boasts a central glass-covered banking hall with a span of 50 m. Elsewhere he designed the Casino and Hotel Provincial (1936), Mar del Plata; Bariloche Cathedral (begun 1932) and the Llao Llao Hotel (1939), also in Bariloche, South Andes; and numerous rural estancias in the colonial manner. He was also responsible for two buildings in Paris and a hotel in Brussels.
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