Fernando Diez
Editorial Director of Summa+, Professor of Urbanism at the Universidad de Palermo (UP), Argentina
Fernando Diez
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Holcim Foundation Awards 2017 jury for region Latin America
Fernando Diez, Editorial Director, Summa+; and Professor of Urbanism, Universidad de Palermo (UP), Argentina at the Holcim Awards jury meeting for Latin America at Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil in June, 2017.
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Holcim Foundation Awards 2012 - Awards Ambasssador meeting
The Holcim Awards Ambassadors met in Lausanne, Switzerland in October 2012 (l-r): Fernando Diez (Argentina), Benjamin Hossbach (Germany), Reed Kroloff (USA), Dirk Hebel (Germany), Sarah Graham (USA), Joe Osae-Addo (Ghana) and Erwin Viray (Japan).
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Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 jury for Latin America
The Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America met in Mexico City, Mexico in July 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Fernando Diez, Yolanda Kakabadse, Marc M. Angélil, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, José Luis Cortés (Head), Sara Topelson, Bruno Stagno, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Vanderley M. John.
Last updated: June 29, 2024 Buenos Aires, Argentina
He moderated the workshop “Green urbanism – Between ecology and economy” at the 2nd Holcim Forum 2007 “Urban_Trans_Formation” in Shanghai, China.
Fernando Diez is also Director of the Department of History & Theory, Faculty of Architecture at UP. He studied architecture at the Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina and Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
He is author of several books including Buenos Aires y algunas constantes en las transformaciones urbanas (Editorial de Belgrano, 1996) and Crisis de Autenticidad: Cambios en los modos de producción de la arquitectura argentina (Summa+, 2008) and Unsettling Agenda: Environment and Society, The First Ten Years of the Twenty-First Century (Centerline, University of Texas Press, 2016).
His critical and theoretical work has been widely published in Argentina and internationally. He is also contributor to the Op-ed section of La Nación newspaper in Buenos Aires, where he writes on ecology, urban development and environmental issues.
Fernando Diez is Professor in Postgraduate Programs at Universidad de DiTella, Universidad de Mar del Plata, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad de Mendoza, and has been visiting professor and lecturer at a large number of universities internationally. He holds a chair at the Argentine Academy of Sciences of the Environment.