In January, the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism opened the call for submissions for the event's 11th edition, the XI BIAU. The Biennial will be held in Asunción, Paraguay, this October, and will focus on modes of living in Latin America from an everyday perspective. The Brazilian curation is led by Cristiane Muniz, Fábio Valentim, Fernanda Barbara, and Fernando Viégas, partners at the firm Una Arquitetos.
The call is open until April 2019, and the results will be announced in Asunción in October during an academic program of activities. In addition to showcasing the selected projects, this program will include a series of conferences, roundtables, and debates centered around the theme of the XI BIAU, alongside exhibitions and parallel events.
Below is the list of professionals who make up the committee that will select these works.
Carlos Eduardo Comas studied architecture in Porto Alegre (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), and Paris (Université de Paris-Saint Denis). His doctoral dissertation is titled Précisions brésiliennes sur un état passé de l’architecture et l’urbanisme modernes, d’après les projets et ouvrages de Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, MMM Roberto, Affonso Reidy, Jorge Moreira & cie., 1936-45. He is a full professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, and editor of the journal ARQTEXTO, published by the Graduate Research Program in Architecture.
Fernando Luiz Lara is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently directs the doctoral program in architecture history. From 2012 to 2015, he served as director of the Brazil Center at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the same institution. An architect graduated from the Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais (1993) with a PhD from the University of Michigan (2001), Lara is the author of several books and hundreds of articles, writing extensively on issues related to the built environment in Latin America.
Guilah Naslavsky (1968) is an architect graduated from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1992), holding a master's (1998) and a doctorate (2004) from the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. She is currently an associate professor at the DAU/UFPE (since 2010) and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Urban Development MDU/UFPE. She was a visiting professor (2015-2016) at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin (SOA/UT) with a Senior Internship fellowship from CAPES. She specializes in Modern Architecture Conservation (2006) from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland/ICCROM.
Guilherme Wisnik (1972) is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. He was a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo (2006-07 and 2016) and is the author of books such as Lucio Costa (Cosac Naify, 2001), Caetano Veloso (Publifolha, 2005), Estado crítico: à deriva nas cidades (Publifolha, 2009), Oscar Niemeyer (Folha de S. Paulo, 2013), Espaço em obra: cidade, arte, architecture (Edições Sesc SP, 2018, with Julio Mariutti), and Dentro do nevoeiro: arte, arquitetura e tecnologia contemporâneas (Ubu, 2018).
Luciano Margotto is an architect and urban planner who graduated in 1989 from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). He received his master's degree in 2001 and his doctorate in 2016 from the same institution, with the thesis “Lições da Arquitetura: leituras a partir de poéticas.” A professor of building design since 1994, he has taught at FAUUSP since 2018 and at FAU-Mackenzie since 2002. He is also an associate professor and collaborator at Escola da Cidade since its founding.
Naia Alban holds a degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universidade Federal da Bahia | FAUFBA (1986). She earned her doctorate in Architecture (graded "cum laude") from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM/UPM) with the doctoral thesis: Urban Morphology in the City of Salvador / Brazil: New Planned Neighborhoods and Their Relationship with the Inherited City (1995) (CAPES Scholarship). She passed the public civil service examination for higher education teaching at UFBA in 2002 and has been a permanent member of the Graduate Program (PPG-AU/UFBA) since 2009.
Otávio Leonídio is an architect, holding a PhD in history, and an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he currently serves as director. He is the author of "Carradas de razões: Lucio Costa e a arquitetura moderna brasileira" (PUC-Rio/Loyola) and "Espaço de risco" (Romano Guerra/Nhamérica).
Paulo Henrique Paranhos (b. 1958) is an architect and urban planner who graduated from the Universidade de Brasília in 1982, where he also earned his PhD in Architecture and Urbanism in 2018. He has been the owner of the firm TAO Arquitetura since 1986. He collaborated with E. M. Dubugras (1980-1984) and João Figueiras Lima (Lelé) at FAEC in Rio de Janeiro (1985). He also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) in 1986, the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service (IBPC) in 1987, and developed projects at the Universidade de Brasília in 1988.
The guidelines for the Call for Submissions for the XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism are now available. The categories open for submissions in this edition are:
For more information, visit the official XI BIAU website or download the call details here.
This article was written by Pedro Vada. The translation is powered by AI.
