ACROSS THE AMERICAS I

The Across the Americas series explores contemporary architecture models operating across the continent. The mission behind Across the Americas is to foster an exchanging platform where academics, researchers, and practitioners can join in a conversation, share strategies and plans of action operating in multiple scales and contexts around the continent. Open a dialogue to discuss issues around professional identity and language in a contemporary way, celebrating innovation, experimentation, and the ideas of a generation that will build the Americas' cities in the years to come. But perhaps the most important mission is to connect all these projects and thoughts with a wider public that can help us understand how the discipline is evolving and changing.

Across the Americas I was an inspiring event about practices, movements, personal experiences, and the impact of those across the South and North.

Amazing presentations by Julian Palacio, Jorge Ambrosi & Gabriela Etchegaray , Rafael Gamo, Elisa Silva y Maite Borjabad López-Pastor and thoughtful comments by our guest respondents Pedro Rivera , Maria Linares, Benjamin Cadena and Pauline Claramunt.

We addressed topics about materiality & tectonics as tools for identity, the afterlife of projects, the act of representation affected by geographic and cultural contexts, visual narratives & composing of an image, circulation of references in the construction of power, landscapes of opportunity, heritage, counterflow: from north to south on how to built a practice and what happens to nonreciprocal timing  and the times of inequality we are living - this not to search for a "common ground", but to reveal some of the interactions and movements of the different architectures and environments of the Americas. Seeking to elevate the quality and understanding of our built environment, spark lively conversations, trigger an ongoing exchange, and to think about the future by extending our interests beyond the object with four walls.

Collaboration with Agustin Schang
Year: 2019 
Location: GSAPP Incubator in New Inc

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPPE PETALAS