AIA IR Mexico - Synchronizing Sustainability
Speaker
L. Benjamín Romano, founder, LBR&A Arquitectos
CES: 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Event Description
Committed to the AIA 2030 Challenge, LBR&A completed the Torre Reforma highrise building in 2016, achieving a 25.4% reduction in energy consumption. Today they are aiming for a Net-Zero Energy Airport terminal in Puerto Vallarta (Terminal 2), and also changing the standard of single-family residences.
This talk will explain how the proper understanding of flow throughout the building, as well as its interaction with the architectural party was key to achieve the reduction in energy consumption.
Speaker
L. Benjamín Romano, founder, LBR&A Arquitectos
Moderators
Arturo Arditti and Jorge Arditti, AIA, CAM-SAM, Co-directors, Arditti + RDT Arquitectos; AIA IR Country Representatives - Mexico
Since his early time at the University, L. Benjamín Romano entered to work at the studio of Engineer Heberto Castillo, where he started doing numbers on structural moments. A year later he was assigned to the architectural project of an industrial complex of 19,000m2 in the State of Hidalgo, under the direction of Engineer Castillo himself. By August 1978, he finished the first building in his history along with his architectural career at the Iberoamericana University.
Interested in the housing industrialization, he entered a factory in the state of Israel. Where he understood that his job would never be the massive construction of architecture, and that buildings should be designed with the structure and the constructive process in mind.
In 1982. he was invited by the University to teach the construction process course at the University, after several years, he became Professor of the Project and Construction cycle as well.
He has taught Courses, participated in the Coordination of the Construction Cycle, and the revision of the curricula of the UIA School of Architecture.
Since 2003, invited by architect Francisco Serrano, he has been the coordinator of the Cátedra Blanca Cemex at the Iberoamericana as well. His university education, his early understanding of the structures and constructive process, as well as his continuous learning of architecture through teaching, are clearly visible in his projects, which have earned him international recognition.
The work of Arturo Arditti as co-director of Arditti + RDT Arquitectos along with his late father Mauricio and his brother Jorge, has materialized in more than 30 years of professional experience in projects that cover various typologies including Cultural, Residential, Corporate, Religious, Institutional, Governmental, Commercial, Sports and Hospitality buildings.
Arturo Arditti's main activity has been architectural design and in select projects he has managed to combine his creative capacity with his real estate development initiative, creating buildings as a real estate co-developer.
His building designs have been characterized by implementing the most advanced concepts of technology, comfort, sustainability and efficiency, placing them at the level of the best buildings of their kind in the world and have been recognized with more than forty awards in Mexico and abroad.
Arturo graduated in 1987 with an Architecture degree from the Anahuac University. As a student, his "Calacoaya" project was chosen to represent Mexico in the International Exhibition of Architecture Students at Columbia University in New York.
From 1994 to 1996 he participated as a visiting critic at “SCI-Arc” in Los Angeles, California, and in 1995 he headed the first experimental vertical study directed by this institution in Mexico. In 1997 he was professor of"Excellence in Architectural Design", taught at the Anahuac University’s Master’s Degree program.
Arturo has served as a Member of the Board of Graduates of Anahuac University since 2002.
In November 2000, a monograph of his work was published in the book ‘‘Arditti + RDT architects’’, which contains a conjunction of images, drawings and descriptive texts in a compilation of magnificent quality. The book has an international edition in English, published by ‘‘Coedimex-México’’ and ‘‘Rotovision-Switzerland’’, with 10,000 copies distributed abroad. Its Spanish language edition was published by ‘‘McGraw-Hill’’ with 3,000 copies covering Spanish-speaking countries.
In 2012 the book entitled “Museo Memoria y Tolerancia” was published by Arquine, with an Architectural Introduction by Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture at the MoMA in New York.
He has lectured in various settings in Mexico and abroad. His architectural work has been widely published and exhibited in cities such as New York, Madrid, Beijing, Sofia, Cologne, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Haifa, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Prague and Venice, among others.
Under the co-direction of Arturo Arditti, the firm Arditti + RDT Arquitectos has been selected twice to represent Mexico at “Time Space Existence”, a parallel event to the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, considered the most important architecture event worldwide. His first participation was in 2014 at the Palazzo Mora and the second in 2016 at the Palazzo Bembo, the latter directed by Alejandro Aravena (Pritzker Prize 2016).
Arturo's work extends to different organizations.He is currently a Mexican ambassador to the “We Are Water” Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a jury of the "Travel and Leisure Hotel Awards" and “MexBest Awards” and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of two of the most prominent architecture and design magazines in Mexico: “Glocal”and “México Design”.
Architect Jorge Arditti’s work belongs to a rising expression of modern architecture in Mexico, which has led him to worldwide recognition.
"Architecture contains an intrinsic inherent energy that has the ability to prompt events and produce a deep impact on social responses, which is what sets it aside from other creative expressions."
His architectural design is focused on creating innovating projects that consider solving spaces that provide users with a fulfilling and valuable experience, producing spatial sensations. We design buildings that respect the individual’s environment, integrating and improving the urban language of the city to which they will belong.
The architectural firm has more than 30 years of experience, developing the following type of projects: Corporate, Housing, Residential, Touristic, Religious, Sporting, Institutional, Commercial, Cultural and Governmental.
At Arditti + RDT Arquitectos, we believe that living in suitable and sustainable spaces contributes to having a better society, providing a better standard of living for those who reside in them. Architect Jorge Arditti’s work has been displayed in Mexico and abroad, in cities such as New York, Austin, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Beijing, Sofia, Cologne, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Haifa, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Miami, among others. His projects have been published in multiple local and international magazines.
