AIA International Uruguay - Inside a Remote Landscape Hotel
Image credit: MAPA ARQUITECTOS
Event Description
This talk is going to take the audience through a journey of moving images and videos of a particular project by MAPA ARCHITECTS: Sacromonte Landscape hotel, located in a remote area of Uruguay. It will focus on our strategies to shift perspectives about two opposites and long time rivals: NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL.
The talk will cover: prefabrication, building in a remote location, newly born hospitality, landscape, reversible architecture, countryside, from factory to landscape, and the Anthropocene.
CES: Estimated 1 LU for AIA Members
Speaker
Andrés Gobba Hannay, Co-founder, MAPA ARCHITECTS
Moderator: José Luis Salinas Ollé, Hon. FAIA, Treasurer and Costa Rica Country Representative, AIA International
Moderator: Gustavo Ribeiro, At-Large Director and Brazil Country Representative, AIA International; Founder, Sito Arquitetura
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.
Andrés is an AIA International Associate since 2022.
Moderator: José Luis Salinas has been a member of the AIA for more than 21 years and has attended close to 20 AIA National Conventions, always traveling from Costa Rica.
He was elected in 2017 as an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
His firm, Arquitectura y Diseño SCMTM, has benefited with the knowledge received from the lectures and trade shows in the Nationals Conventions that they have attended.
16 years ago, while Vice President of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica, he managed to convince the Board of Directors of the Colegio that they should work with the AIA, to open the doors to the Costa Rican Architects to improve their professional knowledge. Since then, an agreement for mutual cooperation between both institutions has been signed and thanks to that, the Colegio has had the honor of receiving in our country 3 AIA Presidents in the last few years.
In the years 2007 and 2008, José worked to organize the AIA Costa Rican Chapter. I got support from the “Colegio” and the AIA´s Board of Directors. We hired an attorney who legally established the organization in San José. The AIA Preceding Costa Rican Chapter in that moment had more than fifty members during those years, with the inconvenience that we were only Associated Members.
The AIA Board of Directors in the San Francisco´s National Convention, proposed in the Business Meeting a change of the Bylaws, to allowed the Associated Members to have the possibility to be Full Members but restricted us to be able to work in the USA. This was during the financial crisis, and for a few votes the proposal was rejected.
Since then, José has been very active in the Colegio´s International Committee, participating always in the AIA National Conventions and working always for a long and very successful professional relationship between the AIA and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica.
Moderator: Born in Curitiba, Brazil, Gustavo Ribeiro obtained his Architecture and Urban Design bachelor degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais State – UFMG in 1992. He founded Sito Arquitetura in 1994, after winning the "National Competition for the Usiminas Cultural Center at Ipatinga, MG Brazil”, from which a book was later published in 1996. This significant prize created an excellent opportunity for him to achieve a rich experience at an early career stage, leading to 24 years of generalist practice.
He has won many other noticeable prizes throughout his career, namely Milton Campos Square, Betim MG; Belo Horizonte Centennial Landmark; COHAB headquarters, Belo Horizonte, MG; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Community Center.
At Sito Arquitetura he is the head of design for projects of various scales and typologies and has been diligently working on Single Family, Multi Family, Housing, Commercial, Hospitality, Retail, Mixed-use and Urban Development projects in Brazil and Africa.
He is currently a board member of CAU/MG for the 2021-2023 term, having also served the 2018-2020 term; Board member of AsBEA MG, serving as Director from 2010 to 2018; BIM committee member of AsBEA, conducting the BIM Workgroup from 2015 to 2016; In 1999 he took a graduate specialization course in Real Estate Development at FUMEC University in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brazil, increasing his knowledge in this area. Since then, he has started a real estate development initiative, researching, planning and delivering projects. He truly believes that an insightful architect vision in this industry can greatly improve the way people relate to their environment.
