The Center for Architecture and Contemporary Studies (CEAC) at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies (EAEU) of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) has presented its public programming for the first semester of 2022, which began on Thursday, March 3, with a lecture by Spanish architect Juan Herreros. On Thursday, March 10, the second cycle of activities, titled "The Work of Others," will begin. This series aims to showcase the intellectual affinities of the School's new leadership through weekly presentations. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Marcelo Faiden, with an introduction by Ricardo Fernández Rojas.
Marcelo Faiden is an architect who graduated with honors from the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) and holds a postgraduate degree from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He has delivered numerous lectures and taught courses at institutions including the Madrid School of Architecture, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, among others. He currently directs the School of Architecture at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
He is a partner at Adamo Faiden, an architecture firm founded in Buenos Aires in 2005 alongside Sebastián Adamo. Internationally recognized, their work has been exhibited at the São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, LIGA in Mexico City, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and the Princeton University School of Architecture, among many others.
