In contemporary Latin America, a new generation of architects is facing the challenging mission of re-tying connections between architecture and its social mandate.
Modern utopias may have undoubtedly left their mark across the 20th Century, mostly through massive social housing operations, but this is just a part of a multilayered history, characterized in its last phases by the worsening of social exclusion and the expansion of favelas, where an increasingly large deprived community sets its strategies for survival. The general social background remains a system born on métissages and successively ravaged by colonialisms and dictatorships enhancing an infamous imbalance between metropolises and a mass of less and less independent local communities.
Young Architects in Latin America. New positions in evolving histories
On show at Arc en Rêve, the projects selected by CA’ASI Architecture Studio give voice to a scene claiming for its own contemporary status of independence.
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- Giovanni Comoglio
- 28 December 2018
- Bordeaux
CATIA 100, Sistema de equipamientos comunitarios, Catia, Caracas, Venezuela. Aparatos contingentes : Gabriel Visconti, Marcos Coronel. Courtesy Aparatos contigentes
CATIA 100, Sistema de equipamientos comunitarios, Catia, Caracas, Venezuela. Aparatos contingentes : Gabriel Visconti, Marcos Coronel. Courtesy Aparatos contigentes
Centro de desarrollo infantil El Guadual, Cauca, Colombia. Zita : Daniel Feldman. Courtesy Daniel Feldman
Centro de desarrollo infantil El Guadual, Cauca, Colombia. Zita : Daniel Feldman. Courtesy Daniel Feldman
Cueva de Luz, La Carpio, San José, Costa Rica. Entre nos Atelier : Michael Smith Masis, Alejandro Vallejo Rivas. Courtesy Entre Nos Atelier
Cueva de Luz, La Carpio, San José, Costa Rica. Entre nos Atelier : Michael Smith Masis, Alejandro Vallejo Rivas. Courtesy Entre Nos Atelier
Ambient 30_60, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. Umwelt : Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu. Courtesy Umwelt
Ambient 30_60, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. Umwelt : Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu. Courtesy Umwelt
Observatorio Marino, Punta San Juan, Peru. Jochamowitz Rivera Arquitectos : Nicolás Rivera Bianchi, Mariana Jochamowitz Cárdenas. Courtesy Jochamowitz Rivera Arquitectos
Observatorio Marino, Punta San Juan, Peru. Jochamowitz Rivera Arquitectos : Nicolás Rivera Bianchi, Mariana Jochamowitz Cárdenas. Courtesy Jochamowitz Rivera Arquitectos
Pabellón-puente, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina. Alarcia-Ferrer Arquitectos :Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer Deheza. Courtesy Alarcia-Ferrer Arquitectos
Pabellón-puente, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina. Alarcia-Ferrer Arquitectos :Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer Deheza. Courtesy Alarcia-Ferrer Arquitectos
La Cueva, Jalisco, México. Cotaparedes Arquitectos: Abraham Cota Paredes. Courtesy Cotaparedes Arquitectos
La Cueva, Jalisco, México. Cotaparedes Arquitectos: Abraham Cota Paredes. Courtesy Cotaparedes Arquitectos
Refugio urbano, Cordoba, Argentina. Agustin Berzero Valeria Jaros. Courtesy Agustin Berzero, Valeria Jaros
Refugio urbano, Cordoba, Argentina. Agustin Berzero Valeria Jaros. Courtesy Agustin Berzero, Valeria Jaros
Casa Península, Guaruja, Brasil. Bernardes Arquitetura : CamilaTariki, Dante Furlan. Courtesy Bernardes Arquitetura
Casa Península, Guaruja, Brasil. Bernardes Arquitetura : CamilaTariki, Dante Furlan. Courtesy Bernardes Arquitetura
El Camarote, Valle de los Chillos, Ecuador. Panamerica Sur — Sebastián Calero Larrea. Courtesy Panamerica Sur
El Camarote, Valle de los Chillos, Ecuador. Panamerica Sur — Sebastián Calero Larrea. Courtesy Panamerica Sur
Grand Salvo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Federico Lagomarsino. Courtesy Federico Lagomarsino
Grand Salvo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Federico Lagomarsino. Courtesy Federico Lagomarsino
Embajada de Brasil, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Ipiña+Nieto : Tadea Casilda De Ipiña Mariscal, Jorge Nieto Pujol. Courtesy Ipiña+Nieto
Embajada de Brasil, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Ipiña+Nieto : Tadea Casilda De Ipiña Mariscal, Jorge Nieto Pujol. Courtesy Ipiña+Nieto
Municipio de Nancagua, Nancagua, Chile. Beals Lyon Arquitectos : Alejandro Beals, Loreto Lyon. Courtesy Beals Lyon Arquitectos
Municipio de Nancagua, Nancagua, Chile. Beals Lyon Arquitectos : Alejandro Beals, Loreto Lyon. Courtesy Beals Lyon Arquitectos
Hostal Ritoque, Ritoque, Valparaíso, Chile. Alejandro Soffia Gabriel Rudolphy architects. Courtesy Alejandro Soffia, Gabriel Rudolphy.
Hostal Ritoque, Ritoque, Valparaíso, Chile. Alejandro Soffia Gabriel Rudolphy architects. Courtesy Alejandro Soffia, Gabriel Rudolphy.
Juana Azurduy Nuñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. BAAG : Griselda Balian, Gabriel Monteleone, Gastón Noriega. Courtesy BAAG
Juana Azurduy Nuñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. BAAG : Griselda Balian, Gabriel Monteleone, Gastón Noriega. Courtesy BAAG
Capela Ingamirim, Ingamirim, Brasil. Estudio Angatuba : Francisco Javier Rivas, Guadalupe Sappia, Rodrigo Quintella Messina. Courtesy Estudio Angatuba
Capela Ingamirim, Ingamirim, Brasil. Estudio Angatuba : Francisco Javier Rivas, Guadalupe Sappia, Rodrigo Quintella Messina. Courtesy Estudio Angatuba
Flocking Tejas, Chile. BASE : Felipe Sepulveda, Barbara Barreda.Courtesy BASE
Flocking Tejas, Chile. BASE : Felipe Sepulveda, Barbara Barreda.Courtesy BASE
Escuelas libres, Chile. García de la Huerta & Gleixner Arq : Tomás García de la Huerta, Xaviera Gleixner, José Miguel Pinto. Courtesy García de la Huerta & Gleixner Arq
Escuelas libres, Chile. García de la Huerta & Gleixner Arq : Tomás García de la Huerta, Xaviera Gleixner, José Miguel Pinto. Courtesy García de la Huerta & Gleixner Arq
On its tenth anniversary, the CA’ ASI project, created by Architecture Studio, has launched an international competition for young architects from Latin America, to emphasize the vital power of this scene, and the relevance of the response given by this scene to such a major mission.
A scientific committee has selected — out of 201 projects from 18 countries — 3 winners ex aequo and 15 honorable mentions, successively shown in Venice as a side event of las 16th Architecture Biennale.
The exhibition is currently on show in Bordeaux at Arc en Rêve Centre d'architecture.
The selection includes public buildings, housing with different vocations, services, programs combining experiments in space and material solutions. Positive signals comes out of the landscape outlined: a drive for research, favoring uniqueness and character in living solutions, as well as a relationship between shape and program as a sign of social impact from spatial solutions, of the power of everyday experience to shape the space, without leaving it to naïve narratives of spontaneous construction.
For this reason, the committee has identified 10 thematic paths to explore the competition proposals, as well as a possible debate on an evolving architecture in Latin America: Generosity; Empowerment; Sweetness of severity; House and territory; Re-enhancement; the Commons; Co-inhabiting; Material/Immaterial; Responses to emergency.
- Young Architects in Latin America — la nouvelle architecture en Amérique latine
- Architecture-Studio; adattamento per Arc en rêve: Michel Jacques, Eric Dordan, Cyrille Brisou
- Arc en rêve Centre d'architecture
- Entrepôt, 7 Rue Ferrere, 33000 Bordeaux
- until February 17, 2019