Andrés Gobba Hannay

AIA International Country Representative - Uruguay

Co-founder, MAPA Architects

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Andrés Gobba Hannay (1978) is a Uruguayan architect who received his degree at FADU, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Andrés is also a professor at the same University since 2005 and has lectured in several international academic institutions.

In 2013 he co-founded MAPA (mapaarq.com), a creative studio whose field of action is architecture. The practice works on projects of diverse scale and complexity across several countries, with a strong focus on creating new material, digital, natural and cultural realities in a sensitive and ground-breaking manner. MAPA’s projects have been recognized on awards such as IX y X editions of Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, the Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards, the Dezeen Awards, and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize of the IIT College of Architecture.

The publications that featured his projects are Casabella, Detail, AU, Time Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, Financial Times, New York Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, among others.

Since 2019, Andrés is co-founder of INST (inst-inst-inst.org), an initiative for the dissemination of the cultural dimension of architecture.

In 2022 he co-created MAPA FIELD STUDIO, a studio located in the remote and rural town of Pueblo Garzon in Uruguay that inquire into contemporary ways of living and working in geographies outside cities, deep in the countryside or remote locations. The studio is the site where design and theoretical inquiries, exhibitions, prototypes, workshops, interviews and other kind of information exchange about architecture, rural landscape and hospitality take place.

Andres is an AIA International Associate since 2022.