Elastic: Between Architecture + Urbanism | U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Javier Sanchez of JSa

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Architect Javier Sanchez graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with honors (1996) and with a master’s degree in Sciences and Development of Real Estate Projects from Columbia University, New York (1998). In 1996, he founded JSa, a key office in the renewal of Mexico City, whose work has focused on urban projects and historic preservation. His recognitions include the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (2006) for the social housing project Brasil 44; the Best New Global Design recognition from the Chicago Athenaeum (2007) for the Condesa DF Hotel; the Gold Medal of the National Biennial of Mexican Architecture (2020) by MMAC Juan Soriano; and recently, the Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects (2022) for Casa Cosecha de Lluvia (in collaboration with RHA). In 2008, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); In 2009 he entered the National System of Art Creators of the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects (previously known as FONCA); and since 2011 he is a member of the National Academy of Architecture. In 2014 he was invited to teach the Federico E. Mariscal Extraordinary Chair at the UNAM Faculty of Architecture, in recognition of his outstanding and high level of performance in the architectural discipline.

1.5 Continuing education credits (CEU) offered. Sponsored by The Miami Chapter of American Institute of Architects.

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The lecture series, Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism, posits a group of practices leveraging the potential of design to define environments stretching across scale, fabric, social contexts, territories, sensibilities, and objects. Sharing a common thread lecture guests hold a deeply rooted agenda linking people to place, building to place, material to place, and social values to place. The shared agenda will serve as a guide to establish questions and define values into each specific architectural investigation-defining new narratives for each design intervention that shape inclusive, equitable, resilient, and most of all spaces of excitement. These uncommon approaches to practice challenge the profession’s contemporary thinking on the role of architecture; stretching design thinking across the limits of building. In these innovative practices, there is a contemplative yet vigilant approach in the relationship of architecture and urbanism, an elasticity of design emerges. Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism sets out to discuss the futures of design, culture, and environment.