Ana Elvira Vélez: 'I realized that Europe was built and in Colombia everything was yet to be done'

In this edition of International Women's Day, we have joined forces with the Colombian print publication de-Arq (Universidad de Los Andes) to explore the work of five contemporary Colombian architects. These practitioners represent distinct, complementary approaches within our discipline: design, research, teaching, and experimentation.

Today, we feature Ana Elvira Vélez, an architect from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, who has distinguished herself through her extensive career in social housing in Colombia. "I have designed and built more than 2,000 low-rise collective housing units in Medellín and the Antioquia region, both privately and publicly," Vélez says. "Each project defines a new neighborhood through a sequence of spaces that reinterpret our region's ways of living," she adds.

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