Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Jeannette Plaut – Monday, November 16, 2020, 5:30 -7:30pm

Please join us for the new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series, titled Far South. Curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch the series features prominent architects from South America who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. “Experiementation Field” will be presented by Jeannette Plaut, an architect, academician, and a curator at large. An introduction will be led by Denise Hoffman Brandt.

To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.

Plaut has been the Director of CONSTRUCTO since 2008 along with her partner, Marcelo Sarovic. In 2016, she was invited to join the MoMA International Curatorial Institute in Modern and Contemporary Art, and, since 2010, has been the Director of the Young Architects Program in Chile, which is associated with MoMA. Plaut has been a professor at Universidad Católica and UNAB and is the Chief Editor of Trace magazine. She has authored several books including PULSO: New Architecture in Chile, PULSO2: New Architecture in Latin America, Rafael Iglesia, CEPAL, Active Patrimony, LATAM 01 and LATAM 02 and works as a Latin American correspondent for international magazines.

Plaut was also a  curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the Director of the National Exhibition at the XV Chilean Biennial, Director of the International Lecture Series at the XIV Chilean Biennial, and is part of the panel of the Rolex Mentor & Protégés Arts Initiative in Switzerland. She was on the jury of the Ibero-American Biennial in Spain, Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and is a nominator of the Beazley Prize of the London Design Museum. Plaut also curated the exhibition EXTRA-ORDINARY: New Practices in Chilean Architecture at the Center for Architecture, AIA, in New York.

Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Patricia Llose Bueno – Monday, November 23, 2020, 5:30 -7:30pm

Please join us for the new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series, titled Far South. Curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch the series features prominent architects from South America who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. “Decoded Architecture” will be presented by Patricia Llosa Bueno, professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and partner at Llosa Cortegana arquitectos. An introduction will be hosted by Jeremy Edminston.

To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.

Patricia Llosa Bueno and Rodolfo Cortegana Morgan founded the Llosa Cortegana arquitectos studio in 2005 after having worked independently for a few years – both are graduates of the Ricardo Palma University. Llosa Cortegana arquitectos’ practice encompasses multiple single-family housing projects, cultural, exhibition and educational buildings, among others. They have been recognized by various national and international awards, including the Silver Hexagon at the XVII National Biennale of Architecture, Urbanism, and Arts of Peru in 2016, and were finalists at the 2016 MCHAP Award from the ITT College of Architecture in Chicago. They attained the First Prize at the XX Quito Architecture Biennale in 2016, the ODA 2017 Prize, the Archdaily Work of the Year prize in Santiago de Chile, and won the ON Second Prize in Mexico.

The pair recently published their first book, “The House is an Idea,” in collaboration with José Luis Villanueva, which shares reflections on the signle-family home.  They have presented their research in this area at numerous conferences both in Peru and abroad.