This event will focus on British-influenced architecture in Argentina following the recognition of the country’s independence by English Foreign Minister George Canning in 1825. As a result of the trade agreements, throughout the Victorian period, British engineers built most of Argentina’s infrastructure, including railways, port facilities, industrial plants and sports infrastructure. Eventually a domestic architecture evolved, based on the then popular suburban Mock Tudor. Postwar innovations in British planning were transferred to the teaching of architecture and architectural practice in Argentina during those years, triggering a second period of British influence.
Evening Schedule
•Introduction and presentation of Speakers, Sebastian Loew
•British Architecture in Argentina Origins and Development, Jorge Ramos
•Cultural Legacy, Viviana Fain-Binda
•Brutalism in Argentina, Diego Troliiet
•‘Learning from the Locals’ – a British architect working in Argentina today, Richard Nightingale
Sebastian Loew is the editor of Urban Design Journal. In 2012 he published Urban Design Practice, an International Review (RIBA).
Jorge Ramos is an architectural historian and critic, lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires and Tucuman where he is also member of the Academic Committee of the study Latin American History of Architecture and Town Planning.
Viviana Fain-Binda (née Woodruff) joined the BBC and later Yorkshire Television, where she has made TV and radio documentaries for the Corporation and Channel 4.
Diego Trolliet studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and is a London-based architect with more than 15 years experience working for several firms before establishing his own practice Trolliet-Architecture and Design in 2012 in London.
Richard Nightingale studied architecture at Cambridge University and worked for firms in Kenya, London and Hong Kong before setting up Kilburn Nightingale Architects in 1986. He has been a visiting lecturer and teacher at Cambridge, Sheffield, the Architectural Association and Welsh Schools of Architecture.