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University City of Caracas
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp

The University City of Caracas (Spanish: Ciudad
Universitaria de Caracas) is the main Campus of the
Central University of Venezuela. It was designed by the
Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. The
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas is considered a masterpiece of architecture and urban planning and is the only
university campus designed by a single architect in the
20th century that has received such recognition by UNESCO.

• Victor Vasarely
• Cloud Shepherd, by Hans Arp
• Cloud Shepherd, by Hans Arp
• Clouds, by Alexander Calder
• L'Amphion by Henri Laurens

The Campus and buildings of the Universidad Central de
• L'Amphion by Henri Laurens
Venezuela are considered to be Villanueva’s masterwork.
Built on the site of the old Hacienda Ibarra (which origi• Stained-glass window Fernand Léger
nally belonged to Simon Bolívar's family) and connected
• Mural by Fernand Léger
to the new city center on Plaza Venezuela, the project
required a massive undertaking of both urban planning
• Maternidad by Baltasar Lobo
and architectural design. The administration of President Isaías Medina Angarita bought the Hacienda Ibarra
• by Antoine Pevsner
in 1942 in order to give the University a larger location
• Tribute to Malevich by Victor Vasarely
than the Saint Francis Covent, giving Villanueva a unique
opportunity to apply his conscious integration of art and
architecture on a grand scale. This vast urban complex
of about 2 km² included a total of forty buildings and it 1.2 Venezuela
became one of the most successful applications of Mod• Miguel Arroyo
ern Architecture in Latin America. Villanueva worked
closely with all the artists who contributed with their oeu• Armando Barrios
vres and personally supervised the project for over 25
years until the late 1960s when his deteriorating health
• Omar Carreño
forced him to leave some buildings in the design stage.
• Carlos González Bogen

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• Pedro León Castro

Artists who contributed to the
project

• Mateo Manaure
• Francisco Narváez

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International

• Pascual Navarro

• Hans Arp

• Alirio Oramas

• André Bloc

• Alejandro Otero

• Alexander Calder

• Héctor Poleo

• Wifredo Lam

• Braulio Salazar

• Henri Laurens

• Jesús-Rafael Soto

• Fernand Léger

• Víctor Valera

• Baltasar Lobo

• Oswaldo Vigas|by Víctor Valera

• Antoine Pevsner

• Lisbhet Mariela Ojeda D´Elía
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• by Pascual Navarro
• by Mateo Manaure
• by Mateo Manaure
• by Alejandro Otero
• by Alejandro Otero
• by Víctor Valera

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External links
• UNESCO World Heritage website on the Ciudad
Universitaria de Caracas
• Exhibition on the Covered Plaza by the Architectural Association, London
• Central University of Venezuela website dedicated
to the life and works of Villanueva(Spanish)
• COPRED, Center for preservation of the UCV

Coordinates: 10°29′25″N 66°53′26″W / 10.49028°N
66.89056°W

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of Arms of Caracas.svg (by Heralder).
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