Jorge Mario Jáuregui

Graduated Architect 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.

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).

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. The residence of the Brazil's Minister of Economy, Marcilio Marques Moreira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And the ongoing works to the PAC (Manguinhos and Alemão).

Current topics in elaboration:

Expandable house; Eco-neiborhoods; The question of the transdisciplinarity; The connection among Strategic Planning, Urban Genetic, Sustainable Development and Prospective; The tension between the "formal" and the "informal" in the contemporary urban context.

Publications:

- "Estrategias de Articulación Urbana, Proyecto y Gestión de Asentamientos Periféricos en América Latina. Un Enfoque Transdisciplinário", FADU/UBA-SICyT - Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Secretaria de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Técnica, Maio de 2003.

- 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.

- "Construir a partir do conflito", Revista Arquitectura Nº 46, Fevereiro de 2004, Lisboa, Portugal.

- "Public Space - Broken City", 306090, Architectural Journal nº9, Ago. 2005, Princeton Architectural Press, Chicago.

- "Buenos Aires Futuro, El Retorno de lo Público, Exclusion e Inclusion: La difícil vida en las Ciudades de nuestro Continente", Revista del Plan Estratégico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, primavera de 2005.

- "Un Urbanisme Pour la Ville Informelle", Revue Urbanisme nº345, París, décember 2005.

- Book about São Paulo, Arq - Diario de Arquitectura Clarin, Guias de Arquitectura Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, enero de 2009.

- DVD about Rio de Janeiro, Guias de Arquitectura Latinoamericana, Arq Diário Clarín, Buenos Aires, 2009.

- "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 Upgrading", La Biennale di Venezia 8.Mostra Internazionale D´architettura, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2002.

- Berichte und Projekte aus Rio de Janeiro, ‘FavelaMetropolis’, Elisabeth Blum e Peter Neitzke, Birkhauser, Berlin, 2004.

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International Seminaries:

- Seminar Rio-Caracas of Social and Urban Itegration, Venezuela, 2000.

- Seminar Rio-Córdoba of "Urbanismo Hoy: Entre la Táctica y la Estrategia", Argentina, 2001.

- Seminar Buenos Aires- "Estrategias de Articulacion Urbana, Proyecto y Gestión de Asentamientos Periferiocos en América Latina, un Enfoque Transdisciplinario", FADU/UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002.

- Seminar Taller Montevideo: "Propuestas para la Ciudad en Transformación-Vaciamentos/Extensiones", FARQ - Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2003.

- Participant lecturer in the Seminar Villette Numérique, "NumériCités, Micro-interventions sur les zones franches/Macro-effets", Cité des Ciences, París, 2004.

- Seminar "Río-Studio/Rocinha", with the participation of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture of Los Angeles) and the Facultad Iberoamericana of the City of Mexico, 2005.

- Seminar Tirana-Studio (Albania), "Methodology of Intervention in the Informal Areas of Rio de Janeiro-Confronting with the Tirana Conditions", 2005.

- Seminar in the Doctorate of Rosario: "Environmental Social and Urbanistc Structuration of the Divided City in Latin America", Universidad Nacional de Rosario, República Argentina, 2005.

- Seminar Taller "Estructuración Urbanística y Social de la Ciudad Partida en América Latina", Escuela de Arquitectura de la Univesidad de Costa Rica/Municipalidad de San José/ Centro Cultural de España/ Colegio de Arquitectos, São José, Costa Rica, 24-28 de Abril 2006.

- Rio Studio Seminar, with the participation of Woodbury University, Architecture Department, Los Angeles, june 2006.

- Seminar-Taller en Kassel, Facultaty of Architecture, University of Kassel, Germany, 2007.

- Seminar-Workshop International Abitazone, 2005/2006/2007

- Seminar "Habitat y Pobreza Urbana", Buenos Aires, Argentine, 2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009

- Seminar in Master - Taller Laboratorio de la Vivienda del Siglo XXI, Escuela de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Fundación Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.