Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Diego Arraigada – Monday, November 30, 2020, 5:30 -7:00pm

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. “Landscape of Resources” will be presented by Diego Arraigada (@diegoarraigada), an architect and professor based in Argentina. An introduction will be hosted by Fabian Llonch.

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

Diego Arraigada completed his degree in architecture at the National University of Rosario in 2000 and attained his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California in 2003. In 2006, he established his own practice in Rosario, Argentina. He is a Professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University School of Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been a guest Professor, lecturer, and workshop leader in several universities and institutions abroad.

Among other distinctions, he obtained the Arquitectonica Foundation Prize for young architects and the Fulbright Scholarship in 2002, the Silver Medal at the XII International Architecture Buenos Aires Biennale in 2009, and the National Prize for Technological Innovation in Architecture in 2015. In 2011, he was selected to represent Argentina in the II Latin-American Architecture Biennale in Pamplona, Spain, and in 2014 he was selected for a solo exhibition at LIGA Espacio para Arquitectura, Mexico. In 2016 and 2018, he was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Award for Emerging Architecture (Chicago, 2016). In 2017, he was invited to take part in the II Chicago Architecture Biennial.

 

Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Milton Braga – Monday, December 7, 2020, 5:30 -7:00pm

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. The final lecture of this series, “Urban discussions in South America: MMBB’s experience,” will be presented by Milton Braga (@mmbb_arquitetos). An introduction will be hosted by Julio Salcedo-Fernandez.

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

Milton Braga studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Univerity of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP), Brazil, receiving three degrees –  his undergraduate degree in 1986, his Masters in 1999 and a PhD in 2006. He has been teaching at the FAUUSP since 2001 and was Visiting Professor at the University of Florida in 2008.

Braga is the author of O concurso de Brasília: sete projetos para uma capital (2010), a book on the Brasilia competition, which was awarded second place by the 53 º Jabuti Award (the most prestigious prize in Brazilian literature) in the Architecture and Urbanism category in 2011; and won the first prize in the book category of the VIII Ibero American Architecture and Urbanism Bienalle in Cadiz, 2012.

Milton is a founding partner of MMBB Arquitetos. Since its inception in 1991, MMBB has grown in notoriety, earning well-deserved recognition through numerous awards and exhibitions. It received the first prize in the national competition for the Brazilian Pavilion in the coming 2020 Dubai Expo. Its Jardim Edite Social Housing Complex won awards in 2014 at the IX Biennial Iberoamericana de Arquitetctura y Urbanism, in Rosario, Argentina. MMBB also won the Best Entry Award for its Watery Voids proposal in the 3rd International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam, 2007, and won several prizes in various editions of the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo.