Latinos
in Architecture deliver architectural inspiration to high school youth…
Latinos in architecture had the opportunity to deliver
donated books to one of our local high schools. Thanks to everyone that donated
books.
Last week, I had the opportunity to be a part of an event
that marks what Latinos in Architecture stands for. This event, From The Architects Bookshelf, promotes
higher education in the field of construction, design and art. It is in LiA’s
core values to promote the need for a higher education, and the importance of
sharing with our community. During each of the volunteers’ introduction we were
able to share where we were from, where we obtained our education, our career
path and a recommendation that we thought would help them. Al Hernandez shared his
passion for architecture, and also explained the roles that architects have as
managers of the different disciplines like engineers, contractors, owners and
users.
The school is always carefully selected keeping in mind
that they have an architecture/design program in their curriculum, and then the
instructor gathers a group of student. We delivered the books to Pinkston High
School in west Dallas. The majority of the students that attend this high school
are minorities.
Below is the group of volunteers (from left to right):
Karina Ramirez
Al Hernandez
Gloria Espino
David Munoz
Salud Sierra
Daniel Navarro Rangel
It was really rewarding to see the faces of exiting
student opening books and understanding what architects do as designers. Thanks
to our co-chair David Munoz and Gloria Espino for organizing the event.
MEETING
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
Social Responsibility Opportunity
Independence
Elementary School
Annual Career Day
May 9, 2014
Need: Hispanic
professionals to talk to the kids to inspire them to
purse a professional degree.
School fact: School's population is about 70%
Hispanic.
Program: Morning session 8:15-10:30 a.m.Afternoon session: 12:45-2:30 p.m.
15-30 minutes conversation with the kids | 4 - 6
classrooms.
Contact: Susan Budilovsky-Robson |214.727.5168
Website: http://independence.lisd.net/
After the event: If
you want to make public you participation and
contribution on the LiA social media,
send us a
synopsis and pictures.
THANK YOU
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet one of PRODUCTORA’s principal hosted by Dallas Architecture Forum.
Carlos Bedoya will be at The Magnolia Theatre, West Village on February 20, 2014 at 7:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for all of our members to see how diversity has helped the success of this firm.
The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to offer a special admission rate for LIA members who are not Forum members-- $10 instead of the normal rate of $20. All you need to do is identify yourself as a LIA member during check-in the evening of the lecture (reception/check in from 6:15 pm to start of lecture) and then pay by cash or check to “Dallas Architecture Forum.”
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Carlos Bedoya Ikeda, a native of Mexico City, studied Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and received his Masters in Architecture from the ETSAB in Barcelona. After practicing in the office of TEN Arquitectos and serving as a project manager at LCM, he and three other partners from Mexico, Argentina and Belgium founded the architectural firm PRODUCTORA in Mexico City. The name PRODUCTORA emerges from the conviction that the design process advances through a continuous production of material to be evaluated. The work of PRODUCTORA is characterized for a precise attention to geometry, a profound aesthetic ambition and a concern with timelessness in its materialization and programmatic solutions. The studio has produced a variety of residential, public, and corporate projects in Mexico and abroad, including Asia and South America. The firm’s work has been published and awarded nationally and internationally. The firm was recently honored as an international Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York City. In 2011 Productora founded LIGA, space for architecture and exhibitions in Mexico City to promote the exchange of ideas and investigations in contemporary Latin-American architecture.
PRODUCTORA currently is working on a variety of projects, both in Mexico and in other countries, ranging from single family dwellings to office or public buildings. The office has taught and lectured at national and international events. They presented their work at the 2nd architectural Biennale in Beijing and at the Venice Biennale in 2008. PRODUCTORA was one of the architecture studios chosen to build a villa for the Ordos100 Project in Inner Mongolia. They won the International Competition for the CAF Headquarters in Caracas (Venezuela) in collaboration with Lucio Muniain, and have been exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Beijing and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bedoya serves on the editorial board of Domus Mexico and has developed an important teaching career, and he currently is a professor at TEC in Monterrey and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
