» A LOOK INTO A SOCIAL ECOLOGY
A cooperative urban rengineering // Autonomous civic infrastructures
Buildings are institutions that celebrates the social, the technological and the environmental parameters of its surroundings.
Platform of cultural expressions and coexisting for art groups, urban biodiversity and grassroots movements.
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PROJECTS
collective landscapes
A collaboration between Umeå Municipality and Umeå University, Sweden 2022
art & political installations
UmArts SVP grant awardee 2022 // Art Campus Umeå University, Sweden 2022
art & political installations
WORJ / Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize // Invited Artist 2019
collective landscapes
SOCIO-PRODUCTIVE NETWORK UNIT // Alongside Yemail Arquitectura + Insitu// Barquisimeto, VE
- Nominated for the MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016
- XV Venice Bienal of Architecture 2016 Reporting From The Front
- Winner of Urban Design Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Biennal 2016
collective landscapes
Tiuna el Fuerte Foundation// El Valle, Caracas, VENEZUELA 2005-ONGOING
- Honorable Mention Social Habitat and Development. Panamerican Quito Biennal 2010.
- 1st Price At The Eme3 Architecture Festival. Barcelona 2010.
- Venezuelan Culture National Award Architectural mention 2010.
- 1st Price the IAPA International Award of Public Art. New Zealand 2013.
- Honorific Mention At The Venezuelan Architecture Biennial In Urban Design 2017
empowerment machines
SPORT AND CURTURAL PLATFORMS // Catia, Carbonell 2007- 2019 Caracas, Venezuela.
- Nominated for the MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016
- Winner of the Architectural Design Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Bienal 2016.
- 1st Prize for Social Architectural Design at the X Salon Malaussena for Architecture and Urbanism
- Nominated for the Oscar Niemeyer LAtin American Architecture Award 2016
- Exhibited at the eme3 International Architecture Festival / Barcelona 2015
- Honorific Mention for Sport Architecture at the Venezuela Bienal 2016
- XV Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016. Reporting From The Front
empowerment machines
REPROGRAMMED OBSOLESCENCE COMMUNITY OPEN CLASSROOM // La Pastora, Manicomio 2011_ 2019 Caracas, VENEZUELA.
- Winner of Recycling and Rehabilitation Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Biennial 2016.
- XV Venice Biennial Of Architecture 2016. Reporting From The Front. Curated By Alejandro Aravena.
Invited artist Tokyo Universtiy of the Arts.
DERIVED TECHNOLOGY: BETWEEN ART AND DESIGN
Educational Project for Emerging Artist to Lead Culture in the Next Generation. Tokyo, 2013
art & political installations
PORTABLE SCENERIES PAVILION // Architectural Instalation Festival DF, Mexico 2018
- MÉXTROPOLI 2018 La Alameda, Mexico
art & political installations
LIGA, espacio para arquitectura DF – Productora // Mexico DF, Mexico 2014
- Liga #16 for Architecture supported by Graham Foundation. Curatorial text by Josep María Montaner. Mexico 2014
- Ministry of Urban Agriculture Research Fellowship Caracas 2017
» CONSCIOUS AND MINDFUL, RETURN TO INDUSTRIALIZATION.
Post oil landscapes: Artificial environments and diverse ecologies. Reuse and reprogramable objects, artifacts and territories on disuse.
Buildings are primarily assemblies, instruments of engagement between public art interventions and collective installations that pup-up values and cultural manifestations.
The projects integrates applied science and local traditions as a sustainable approach to human, environmental and material resources.
- First Prize for Urban and Landscape Design IV Architecture Biennale of Maracaibo, Venezuela 2013
- “Caracas del Valle al Mar: Guía de Arquitectura y Paisaje” Iván González Viso, María Isabel Peña
empowerment machines
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE // Caracas, Venezuela 2007-2018
- Commended House at The AR Housing Award 2017. The Architectural Review
- XV Venice BiennialOf Architecture 2016. Reporting From The Front.
- XX Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile. Diálogos Impostergable
- Nominated For The MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018
art & political installations
- Elam School of Fine Arts International Artist In Residence At The University of Auckland 2014
FESTIVAL OF TRANSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE // Studio Christchurch Physics Room // New Zealand 2014
- Elam School of Fine Arts International Artist In Residence At The University of Auckland 2014
art & political installations
URBAN ORCHARD POST-ECOLOGIES PROTOCOLS // Caracas Venezuela 2013-2018
- Architecture and Landscape Exhibition Salón de Arquitectura de Interiores La Esmeralda
art & political installations
JACA – Jardim Canada Art Center // Belo Horizonte, Brasil 2014
- JA.CA Art and Technology Center. Artist Residence
art & political installations
POST-EMERGENCY REENGINEERING // ELAM ARTIST RESIDENCY / CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND 2014 – on going
» BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, NOT ONLY INFRASTRUCTURES
More programing, less construction.
Buildings are interventions that promote political consciousness and civic responses.
Public infrastructures that enhances and supports local talents, traditions and multiple intelligences in forms of labour.
Public knowledge factories that trigger abstract thinking, creative performance and new learning and pedagogical processes.
» FAST MONTAGE SLOW ARCHITECTURE
Reengineering Communities // Ecologies of Desires
Buildings are a logistic chain of events that, eventually, could transform into a complex social, performative and environmental apparatus.
The process develops a series of hybrid and flexible civic artifacts that promote cultural activities to regenerate the existing ecosystem and degraded context redefining the urban life.
empowerment machines
BURNING MAN PROPOSAL // U.S 2018
In collaboration with Luis Pimentel & Valentina Alvarado
art & political installations
INTEGRATED NANO-STATION SYSTEM
SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION & EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKING // Barquisimeto, Venezuela 2017
- National Geographic Social Fellowship 2017
public machines
CREATIVE CONTAINER CARNEVAL
// China 2013
EMPOWERNMENT MACHINES
SPIRAL GYM
SELF REGENERATIVE FAVELAS // BARRIO NAZARENO, VENEZUELA 2014-2015
PUBLIC MACHINES
PARQUE MIRADOR
T.FAB WORKSHOP
GREEN EMERGING
JINAN WEST CITY FORUM /PUBLIC ART COMPETITION WORKSHOP // Jinan Distric, China 2015-2018
PUBLIC MACHINES
ANATOMIA ARTIFICIAL
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