Presents
Jorge Mario Jáuregui
http://www.jauregui.arq.br/
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Jorge Mario Jáuregui is an Architect who’s 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:
Expandable 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_design.html
http://www.jauregui.arq.br/eco_monumental.html
Broken City - Public Space in the context of the divided society
Urban, Social and Environmental Articulation
http://www.jauregui.arq.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/favela-bairro-project-jorge-mario-jaureguiarchitects-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
D´architettura, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2002.
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