ABRIL 19 - 22
DIVERSITY AND MIXTURE
Join us for an entire week of debates at the 27th UIA2021RIO World Architecture Congress with the world’s leading experts on the topic of Diversity and Mixture.
Content is presented in the home language of the speaker, subtitled in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Available for a limited period, after which all debates, lectures, keynote presentations and roundtable sessions will be available only to registered Congress attendees.
Accepting responsibility for a better world
The 21st century shows that it is necessary to accept different worldviews and the diversity of genders, races and behaviors. Only in this way will we reduce segregation and contribute to the preservation of the material and immaterial legacies of the different peoples. Architecture and Urbanism must pay attention to the diversity and mixture of cultures and seek interrelationships with other professional fields, absorbing anthropological, political, social, cultural, economic and other visions.
Do not miss the opportunity of this transdisciplinary meeting and contribute to a more diverse and harmonious world.
Be part of this transformative movement!
April 19, 9 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro (GMT-3)
Gender and Culture
- Zaida Muxi
- Gabriela de Matos
Moderated by:
Tainá de Paula
April 20, 9 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro (GMT-3)
Citizenship and Heritage
- Fuensanta Nieto
- Marcelo Ferraz
Moderated by:
Aline Cruz
April 21, 9 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro (GMT-3)
Globality and Singularity
- Juan Román
- Rusty Smith
Moderated by:
Kristine Stiphany
April 22, 11 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro (GMT-3)
LIVE: DIVERSITY AND MIXTURE
Special "live" debate with several invited experts who will bring reflections and proposals to the issues addressed during the week.
Content is presented in the home language of the speaker, subtitled in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Available for a limited period, after which the discomforts, lectures, keynote presentations and roundtable sessions will be available only to registered Congress attendees.
MEET THE WEEK’S DISCUSSANTS DIVERSITY AND MIXTURE
Zaida Muxi
Zaida Muxi was one of the first scholars of gender issues applied to urbanism and architecture. In Barcelona, where she has lived since 1990, she formed a collective (Col Lectiu Punt 6) and a research network (Um día, una architect) on the subject. She is the author of the books Mujeres, casas y ciudades – Más allá del umbral and, together with Josep Maria Montaner, Arquitectura y Política
Gabriela de Matos
Gabriela de Matos is the creator of the Arquitetas Negras project, which maps the production of Brazilian female black architects. In 2020, she was elected Architect of the Year by the Rio de Janeiro Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ). She explores the racial issue in an intersectional way to the gender, architecture and city debate. She has a specialization in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment and is Vice President of IAB-SP.
Fuensanta Nieto
Fuensanta Nieto is one of the most outstanding Spanish architects today, founder with Enrique Sobejano of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, which has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Her career is marked by the conquest of major works in public tenders. She is the author of projects for iconic museums such as San Telmo, in San Sebastian, the Center for Contemporary Art and the Madinat al-Zahra museum, in Cordoba, the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza, and the annex of the Joanneum Museum, in Graz, Austria.
Marcelo Ferraz
Marcelo Ferraz collaborated with Lina Bo Bardi for 15 years and Oscar Niemeyer in 2002. He was also director of the Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardi Institute and of the Ministry of Culture’s Monumenta program for the restoration of historic cities. He is one of the founders of the Brasil Arquitetura firm and author of the books Arquitetura rural na Serra da Mantiqueira (1992), Lina Bo Bardi (1993) and Arquitetura Conversável (2011).
Juan Román
Juan Román is one of the creators of Escuela de Talca, recognized for bringing his students closer to constructive practice and training professionals capable of responding to today’s challenges and cultural changes. In 2015, he received the World Award for Sustainable Architecture from the Locus Foundation, in Paris, France. In 2016, he was curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale, where he presented the exhibition “Countercurrent”, with 15 projects by Talca students for rural areas.
Rusty Smith
Rusty Smith is associate director of Rural Studio, a design-building program at Auburn University in Alabama (USA), which offers students hands-on experience in rural Black Belt. Rural Studio won important awards such as the Presidential Citation of the American Institute of Architects, the Whitney M. Young Jr. Social Responsibility Award and the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.
THE WORLD'S LARGEST EVENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM.
An entire week of special content that is open to the public, OPEN WEEK UIA2021RIO as an integral part of the 27th World Congress of Architects, organised in Brazil for the first time, by the International Union of Architects (UIA).
This 27th World Congress has been expanded, allowing people from all over the world to attend, who would otherwise find it difficult to travel to Rio de Janeiro.
From March to July we will have an extensive and intense virtual program, open to all continents, trilingual.
Leading names in Architecture and Urban Planning will be speakers and presenters at this event, discussing the future of architecture and the city. Join them!
Content is presented in the home language of the speaker, subtitled in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Available for a limited period, After which the discomforts, lectures, keynote presentations and roundtable sessions will be available only to registered Congress attendees.
MARCH – JULY
- 100% Digital
- Online Discussions
- Propositional Lives
- Architalks
- UIA sessions and partner entities
- Keynotes
- Roundtable
An entire week of special content that is open to the public, OPEN WEEK UIA2021RIO as an integral part of the 27th World Congress of Architects, organised in Brazil for the first time, by the International Union of Architects (UIA).
This 27th World Congress has been expanded, allowing people from all over the world to attend, who would otherwise find it difficult to travel to Rio de Janeiro.
From March to July we will have an extensive and intense virtual program, open to all continents, trilingual.
Leading names in Architecture and Urban Planning will be speakers and presenters at this event, discussing the future of architecture and the city. Join them!
MARCH – JULY
- 100% Digital
- Online Discussions
- Propositional Lives
- Architalks
- UIA sessions and partner entities
- Keynotes
- Roundtable
MEET THE ARCHITALKS OF APRIL
(EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FOR CONGRESSPEOPLE)
Adriano Mascarenhas
Born in Bahia, Adriano Mascarenhas is at the head of Sotero Arquitetos, which works on large-scale projects in the public area and in urban planning. Among the most recent, there are important urban interventions in Salvador, such as the requalifications of the Ladeira do Curuzu, the Caminho da Fé and the Colin Sagrada do Senhor do Bonfim. Another project of the architect in the capital of Bahia is Tecnocentro, the seat of the state government in the Parque Tecnológico da Bahia. Bruno Lima
Bruno Lima is one of the founders of the collective O Norte – Oficina de Criação, together with architects Chico Rocha and Lula Marcondes. The group seeks to disseminate and enhance Brazilian art and culture, especially in the north and northeast regions. With the Escola Novo Mangue he represented Brazil at the 15th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, in 2016. In 2010, he was chosen by Revista Arquitetura e Urbanismo as one of the 25 most promising architecture firms in Brazil in the next 25 years. Celso Rayol
Celso Rayol Jr. is the author of several business and hotel buildings in Rio de Janeiro. He received awards from the Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB) for the projects of Decoração do Sambódromo (1988), Praça Porto Rocha (1991) and Revitalização do Edifício Glória (2004). He won the Saint Gobain Architecture for Sustainable Habitat for the Complexo Multiusoi project (2016). Its Residencial Sorocaba 112 project was chosen among the 150 most important buildings in the world in 2017, for the annual ArchDaily award, Building of the Year.
Cazú Zegers
Featured in 2019 among the 18 best architects in the world by the magazine Elle Decor, from New York, the Chilean Cazú Zegers transits through different scales, from the design of objects – lamps and furniture – to urban planning and territorial and cultural management. She is the author of the award winning projects of the Chilean hotels Tierra Patagonia and Magnolia, this an example of conservation of historical heritage. She is also the founder of Fundación +1000, which develops research on art, territory and culture.
Fernanda Barbara
Fernanda Barbara is a founding partner of Una Arquitetos and a professor at Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo. She was part of the curatorial team of the Brazilian representation at the Venice International Biennial, in 2006, the jury of the international competition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, in 2016, and the curatorial team of the 2019 Iberian American Biennial. She exhibited in four editions of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. In 2018, Una Arquitetos was a finalist, with four projects, at the MCHAP Award in Chicago, United States.
Li Xinggang
Li Xinggang leads his Atelier Li Xinggang, in Beijing, and is part of the China Architecture Design & Research Group (CADG). Signs a series of projects for museums, housing estates, subway stations, community centers and sports facilities, with emphasis on the gym on the campus of Tianjin University (2015), the Shangqiu Museum, which houses collections about the Shang dynasty, and the residential The Third Space. He was awarded a few times at the China National Outstanding Architecture Awards.
Lua Nitsche
Lua Nitsche is a partner of her brother in the Nitsche Arquitetos Associados office and a professor at Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo. Her projects have won numerous awards. The João Moura Commercial Building was recognized by the IAB-SP, in 2012, in the design category and with the Best Constructed Work Award. The building also earned the Moon the Young Architects Award in 2009. Mario Figueroa
Mario Figueroa is a professor at the Escola da Cidade and, for the past ten years, he has worked frequently in academic and professional events in Ibero-American countries. He won more than 20 awards in public competitions in Architecture and Urbanism, including the Museu da Memória and the Centro Matucana, in Santiago, one of the commemorative works of the Bicentenary of Independence of Chile. Some of his sketches are in the architectural collections of the George Pompidou Center, in Paris (France), and the Casa da Arquitectura, in Matosinhos (Portugal). Peter Rich
One of South Africa’s most awarded architects, Peter Rich is a scholar of tribal and underserved peoples. He is a member of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Sydney Sussex College of the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the gold medal by the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) and his Mapungubwe Interpretation Center was awarded the title of “World Building of the Year” at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in 2009. In 2018, he won an exhibition of his own at the Venice Biennale.
Rocco Yim
Rocco Yim is the founder of Rocco Design Architects Limited, with around 150 employees in Hong Kong and Shenzhen and responsible for iconic projects such as the Hong Kong Government headquarters, the Yunnan Museum, the Guangdong Museum and the Hong Palace Museum Kong (in development). In addition to numerous international awards, he exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale (2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012). Tang Yan
Architect and urban planner in Beijing, Tang Yan is a professor at Tsinghua University and serves on the Urban Design committee of the Architectural Society of China. Among her most outstanding works are guidelines for the urban design of the Chaoyang district and a project to revitalize the historic district of Dashilan. Several times she won the National Excellent Urban Planning and Design Awards.
Tia Kansara
Economist, designer, entrepreneur, with innovative ideas and projects in sustainability, Tia Kansara is a co-founder of Kansara Hackney, the first sustainable lifestyle consultancy certified by the ISO standard. She is also CEO of Replenish Earth, a collective action to protect global common goods (natural resources). He was the youngest person to receive the honorary membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2018, it was listed by the newspaper “Financial Times” among the “Top 100 Leaders of Ethnic Minorities in Technology”.
Yolande Daniels
Yolande Daniels is the founder of the award winning Architecture and Design Studio SUMO, with headquarters in New York and Los Angeles. Among the works of SUMO are the Josai University School of Business Management in Sakado, Japan; the Museum of African Diaspora Art in Brooklyn; the Mizuta Art Museum, in Sakado. Yolande is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC), and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Columbia and Yale universities.
Leading Names in World Architecture
A Meeting of Generations that will go down in History
From design icons to young talents, architects from all over the world are invited to gather together with urban thinkers, researchers, students, builders, outreach movements, technology and innovation firms, multilateral and academic institutions, and political authorities, exchanging experiences related to the construction of living spaces for society.
The current global crisis has highlighted the interdependence between economics, politics, society, the environment, and the city. Far-sightedly, this interdependence was mentioned in the theme of the 27th World Congress of Architects. More than ever, we are aware that we are all living in the same era and sharing the same planet.
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