CIUDADES DEL SALITRE, UN ESTUDIO DE LAS OFICINAS SALITRERAS EN LA REGIÓN DE ANTOFAGASTA; Poemas de Andrés Sabella (1912-1989)

Santiago, Chile: Orfgenes, 1999. b/w plates, facs., tbl., meas. draws., maps, plans, glos., bibl., color fldg. pict. wrps. Nitrate activity contributed to the modernization of Chile and the building of territory and the formation of new industrial cities. The process provided Chilean architecture with a series of noteworthy works: the nitrate "offices", as they were called. The most significant of the nitrate cities in the Antogagasta region were the Chacabuco office (1924), the last to use the Shanks industrial system of English origin and Marfa Elena (1925) and Pedro de Valdivia (1931), whose construction introduced the Guggenheim industrial system from the U.S. Industrial and public service buildings contitue a significan contribution to industrial architecture, which reached an advanced level in these settlements. UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL REFERENCE.