Out of 41 applicants, Colombian architect Lina Toro has won the 4th New York Research Fellowship organized by the Arquia Caja de Arquitectos Foundation and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, according to the Spanish foundation.
The jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Toro's project, "Pedagogical Conversations," recognizing it as a way to delve deeper into architectural teaching methodologies through "pedagogical conversations." "Pedagogical Conversations" is part of her doctoral thesis, "Pedagogies on the fringes: the conditions of the next architectural manifesto," developed within the Department of Architectural Design at ETSAM in Madrid, which seeks to highlight conversations with seminal and emerging figures of contemporary thought, art, and architecture.
The approach of the Colombian architect—co-founder of dosmasunoarquitectos, current director of linatoro.arch, and professor at IE University in Spain—is to construct a space for reflection to "update the teaching of architectural design, defining the necessary conditions for a future pedagogical framework capable of generating, producing, and transmitting knowledge, with an anticipated impact on academia," as explained by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in a press release.
The Arquia Foundation noted that the fellowship-winning project:
It will be an independent document that will contribute significantly to the field of architecture, offering new ideas and pedagogical approaches thanks to the contributions of the interviewees. Hence its potential for impact and dissemination. The research will be able to operate across different fronts and formats: from being an editorial collection of published conversations to establishing forums, seminars, and conferences
In addition to selecting Lina Toro's project as the winner, the jury also chose:
- Alternate: Counterspaces Byproducts of the other Manhattan / Marta López Marcos
- Honorable Mention: New York: the slum incubator. Affective-dissident architectures and their reprogramming of the public, 1968 / Natalia Matesanz Ventura
- Honorable Mention: Jane's Walks / Idoia Arrazola
- Honorable Mention: Inclusion of natural elements and living materials for the creation of urban vernacular spaces / Claudia García San Millán
- Honorable Mention: Exilium New York / Berta Bilbao Vélez.
Established in 2015, the New York Research Fellowship aims to provide research resources for newly graduated architects. This initiative emerged in response to the lack of specific support for theoretical projects in architecture. The fellowship provides a grant of 18,000 euros distributed over six monthly installments, in addition to covering travel expenses to New York and the Columbia ISSO Visiting Scholar program.
Via Fundación Arquia Caja de Arquitectos and La Vanguardia.
This article was written by Yamid Rivera. The translation is powered by AI.
