Presents

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Presents Jorge Mario Jáuregui http//www.jauregui
.arq.br/
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Jorge Mario Jáuregui is an Architect whos work
and life is dedicated to a social task of utmost
significance and priority upgrading and
humanizing life conditions in Brazilian favelas
(slums) through urbanistic and architectural
interventions of sustainable quality. Both his
activities and his writings show that and how
architects can do more than to design brilliant
objects. Internationally accepted through the
Harvard prize Jáuregui demonstrates that
architects can broaden the professional horizon,
and that there is always a way to seize the
chance to intervene in given urban and social
situations combining social commitment,
creative methods including forms of cooperation
between planners and clients, and spatial
solutions. Jorge Mario Jáuregui is not only a
practicing architect designing urban projects but
likewise a genuine theoretist finding clarifying
terms that are adequate to his challenging
urbanistic interventions. As a creative thinker
Jáuregui has for example developed the term
partido urbanistico, a kind of key or
structural coherent dispositive through which he
formulates every particular project, combining
urbanistic, social, cultural, economic, and
ecological aspects in a unique conceptual formal
and spatial configuration. What makes his
theoretical and practical methods intriguing,
sophisticated as well as coherent is their
interdisciplinary co-action in the reading of
the existing site.
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Graduated from the Facultad de Arquitectura de la
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Live
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he has his
studio. Urbanist-architect from the Faculdade
de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.Nominated for the Premio Mies
van der Rohe de Arquitectura Latinoamericana,
Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain,
1999. Grande Prêmio da IV Bienal Internacional
de Arquitetura de São Paulo, Brazil, 1999.
Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban
Design, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Design, GSD, 2000.Primer Premio de
Investigación de la III Bienal Iberoamericana de
Arquitectura, Santiago de Chile, 2002.Exhibitor
invited to the World Exhibition of Contemporary
Art, 12 Documenta, Kassel, 2007.
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Representative of Brazil in the 8ª Mostra
Internazionale di Architettura de la Biennale di
Venezia.Has written numerous reviews of
architecture and urbanism in magazines and
newspapers in Brazil, as well as in other
countries. Has participated in exhibitions,
conferences, courses, seminars, workshops and
biennials in Brazil and other countries. Has
acted as a member of numerous juries of public
competitions of Architecture in Brazil and
abroad. Has promoted and participated in
interdisciplinary debates including Architecture,
Urbanism, Philosophy, Art, and Contemporary
Sciences.Investigator Associated with the
Laboratory of Morphology, University of Buenos
Aires, SICyT-FADU/UBA.Member of the Cartel of
Art and Psychoanalysis of the Institution Letra
Freudiana of Rio de Janeiro.Member of the
Instituto de Arquitetos do Rio de Janeiro
(IAB-RJ).
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Among his main works executed are the
Re-urbanization of the street of Catete
(Rio-Cidade program) in the historic area of Rio
de Janeiro the Urbanization of 20 favelas
(shanty towns) in different locations in the city
of Rio de Janeiro (Favela-Bairro program)
Urbanistic Development Plan (Master Plan) to the
"Complexo do Alemão" and to "Complexo de
Manguinhos" the Urban Furniture for Rio de
Janeiro. Current topics in elaboration Expandabl
e house The question of the trans
disciplinarity The connection among Strategic
Planning, Urban Genetic, Sustainable Development
and Prospective The tension between the "formal"
and the "informal". Urban Social
Articulation http//www.jauregui.arq.br/urban_desi
gn.html http//www.jauregui.arq.br/eco_monumenta
l.html Broken City - Public Space in the
context of the divided societyUrban, Social and
Environmental Articulation http//www.jauregui.ar
q.br/broken_city.html
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The Favela-Bairro Project Jorge Mario Jauregui
Architects (Graduate School of Design Green
Prize) The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro are
shantytowns that lack even the most basic
infrastructure and services. The Favela-Bairro
Project, featuring the work of Jorge Mario
Jauregui Architects, seeks to turn these blighted
areas into functioning neighborhoods, or bairros.
Jauregui's design initiatives include the
construction of community centers offering
recreational activities and job training, daycare
facilities, communal kitchens, and new streets
and pedestrian walkways. These projects
facilitate movement within the favelas, create
links to the city center, address health and
environmental concerns, and taken collectively,
improve the sociological and economic status of
the favelas. http//www.ecobcil.com/content/fave
la-bairro-project-jorge-mario-jauregui-architects-
graduate-school-design-green-prize
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• Publications (a few amongst many)
• Harvard University Graduate School of Design,
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, "The Favela-Bairro
  Project", Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects, The
  Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.
  Edited by Rodolfo Machado, 2003.
• "Public Space - Broken City", 306090,
  Architectural Journal nº9, Ago. 2005, Princeton
  Architectural Press, Chicago.
• "Design Like You Give a Damn", Architectural
  Responses to Humanitarian Crises, Edited by
  Architecture for Humanity, Metropolis Magazine,
  New York, pag. 216/221, 2006.
• "The Good Life, New Public Spaces for
  Recreation", Published by Van Alen Institute, Zoe
  Rayan editor, Princeton Architectural Press, New
  York, p. 70, 2006.
• "Favelas (Slums) Upgrading", La Biennale di
  Venezia 8.Mostra Internazionale Darchitettura,
  Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2002.