Carla Juaçaba_Lezioni di architettura_Public Lecture
Academy of Architecture
Date: 11 May 2017 / 19:30 - 21:00
Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio Campus
Carla Juaçaba, Rio de Janeiro
Carla Juaçaba (Rio de Janeiro, 1976) began working with architect Gisela Magalhães, coeval of Oscar Niemeyer, at a series of exhibitions related to the Brazilian native arts. Since 2000, he started his architecture and research practices in Rio de Janeiro, dealing with public projects related to cultural promotion and private housing projects, including “Rio Bonito House” (2005), “Varanda House” ( 2007), “Minimal House” (2008) and “Santa Teresa House” (2014). Important is the project for “Humanidade” an ephemeral pavilion conceived with art director Bia Lessa and built in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio + 20. Carla Juaçaba is constantly engaged in teaching as well as in research and has held lectures at Harvard GSD, University of Toronto, GSAPP at Columbia University and in 2014 at the IUAV Summer Workshop in Venice. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 2014. She won the first edition of the arcVision Prize in 2013 and in 2014 she was nominated for the Schelling Architecture Award and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. In 2016 she was Visiting Professor at the City College of New York.
Public Lecture
Thursday, May 11
7.30pm
Accademia di architettura USI
Aula magna, Palazzo Canavee
Mendrisio
