 Thereafter he was involved with a wide range of projects concerned with the modernisation of Buenos Aires and the construction of public buildings, houses, hospitals, cemeteries, churches, parks, banks etc.In 1881 he joined the Commission for overseeing building projects in the city of La Plata.In 1886, he founded the Central Society of Architects and became its president between 1888 and 1891 and again between 1901 and 1902.