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eiroa
architects* is based in Buenos Aires and as a design
practice in New York City and has been integrating theoretical speculation and professional practice in
different associations since 1998, with work ranging from academic research
through scholarships and publications, to professional architecture design in
private and state commissions. He is currently an Assistant Professor in architecture design II,
advanced visual studies / landscape seminar at the Irwin S. Chanin School
of Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City.
He has participated
as a visiting critic of different design reviews and competition juror at New
York City Alliance for Young Artists, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania,
Pratt Institute,
the Architectural Association, University of
Applied Arts Vienna, Columbia University and the University of Buenos
Aires. He collaborated with Peter Eisenman as a
senior designer in a number of competitions and projects since 2002, including:
three installations in Europe during 2004-2005 (Verona Carlo Scarpa’s
Castelvecchio, the IX Architecture Venice Biennale and in the MAK Museum in
Vienna); the Arizona Cardinals Stadium (2003); the Second Prize for the Napoli
TAV terminal competition in Italy (2003); designs for the WTC site published by
the New York Times (2002) and the New York Magazine (2002); and participated as
a senior designer for the team Richard Meier - Peter Eisenman - Charles
Gwathmey- Steven Holl, one of the finalist submissions for the Innovative Design
Ideas for the World Trade Center Site organized by the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation, New York City (2002). Mr.
Lorenzo-Eiroa received his architecture degrees from the University of Buenos
Aires School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (1997) where he is developing
his second Master’s thesis under a scholarship (1999-2001); he completed a
post graduate seminar at the Superior School of Fine Arts Ernesto de la Carcova
(1998); and won the Fulbright Scholarship and National Endowment for the Arts
Scholarship (2001-2004) to continue his research at Princeton University School
of Architecture with full scholarship (2001-2004). His Master of Architecture Thesis proposed an
architectural machine that worked space, time and ecology, transforming
environmental forces to generate artificial landscapes as feedback, developing a
unique system of floating architecture foundations that become fixed by
sedimentation. At Princeton he completed research from four PHD seminars and won scholarships
and prizes including the EC-US international workshop in Barcelona (ETSAB) and
Los Angeles (UCLA) (2001/2002) and the Butler Thesis Research Prize, to analyze
architecture and infrastructural effects on offshore and
shore structures, for the Shearwater North
Sea Central in the UK and the Holland
Polders (2003).
He taught at the University of Buenos Aires School of Architecture (1997-2001),
architecture design with the Cathedra Solsona-Salama with S. Foster, and visual
studies with the Cathedra Garcia Berdinas with Roberto Lombardi. He also developed
research for the SICyT, and published-edited articles, such as his collaboration
for the architecture book “Solsona Entrevistas.Apuntes para una
Autobiografia”, by ediciones Infinito (1998). Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa's projects have been published in different media, among others, his mixed-use cultural and residential building proposal for the World Trade Center Site was part of the “Think Big: The Mater’s Plan”, a research group organized by the New York Times Magazine in 2002 and curate by Herbert Mushamp, which included discussions and projects from Eisenman, Koolhaas, Hadid, Meier, Holl, Gwathmey Vinoly, and other architects and planners. He has been involved in the design and building of projects in South America, the U.S. and Europe. In Buenos Aires he has designed, developed, exhibited and published many projects, among others, a Second Prize for the Development of Ideas for Ciudad Universitaria, and a Selection for Promenades in Recoleta (1998-2000), a Housing competition for Barcelona’s El Raval (UIA selection), a Public Shore Park in Vicente Lopez-North Buenos Aires (2000), some residential buildings and houses (1998-2007), associated and collaborating alternatively with Meredith Bostwick, Justo Solsona, Ciro Najle, Francisco Cadau, Santiago Pages, and others.
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