News from OWA member Sandra Vivanco

Sandra Vivanco, Principal in A+D: Architecture and Design, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Cultural Diversity at the California College of the Arts, continues to work on issues of gender in Latin American architecture. Recently she lectured on this subject at the 2012 Latin American Studies Association congress in San Francisco as well as the East Bay AIA in Oakland and in our own CCA campus.

For a link to her lecture, please click here.

Also participating in the ensuing panel discussion were two of the architects featured in the accompanying exhibit: Catalina Patino form Medellin, Colombia and Frida Escobedo from Mexico City as well as the Director of Architecture Ila Berman and the exhibit curator, Nora Enriquez.

For a link to her presentation, please click here.

The accompanying exhibit is part of SFAIA's Architecture in the City and it is on view until October 5th at the Mission Cultural Center gallery.

Vivanco has also written a recent article on the work exhibited and has garnered major interest in many other publications: Places Journal click here; and Architect Magazine click here.

Additionally and in collaboration with two other CCa faculty members Zylbelberg and Roach, Vivanco is teaching a seminar and studio on the Guarani Aquifer territory shared by Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The results of this work will be presented at an international conference taking place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in October 2013 as part of a network of North and South American academic institutions better known as the SAP South American Project. For more information click here.