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PUERTO MADERO – The finest Buenos Aires neighborhood

Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio (district) of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos Aires.     post by Fredspective

OBRA Architects: Lecture by Pablo Castro

“CRIMINALS, DREAMERS and SUICIDES. CPablo Castro founded OBRA Architects with Jennifer Lee in 2000 in New York City. He was born in San Juan, Argentina and educated at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan in Argentina and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a 2003 Society of Architectural Historians de […]

Blurring Boundaries: Waste as a Vehicle for a Social Metamorphosis

Final M.Arch thesis video. In 2001, Argentina suffered an economic collapse that almost wiped out the middle-class, leaving thousands homeless. This resulted in the growth of the informal settlements and informal sectors of employment in and around the formal city of Buenos Aires. The urgency for survival led to the rise of many waste-pickers or […]

A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California (3 videos)

The exhibition examines the work of more than thirty major and emerging figures in contemporary Los Angeles architecture of the last twenty-five years.Celebrating the ideas, projects, and processes of an architectural community that continually seizes the opportunity to redefine architecture, locally and globally, from within a city renowned for incubating architectural experimentation. By MOCATV Pt. […]