On November 20, the 2020 Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito (BAQ 2020) announced the winners of the present edition. Every other year, the BAQ "invites to discuss contemporary production of the built environment, aiming to improve the practice of our profession" in the Americas.
According to the organization, the BAQ 2020 aimed "to study the transforming capacity of architecture from the discipline to its environment and the city, one that questions the existing system of relationships to reach a new approach that balances the ideal and the real."
Meet the winners of the 2020 Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito (BAQ 2020):
World BAQ Award
Tropicario Jardín Botánico de Bogotá / De Arquitectura y Paisaje (DARP)
Colombia
Team members: Jorge Buitrago, Jaime Cabal, David Carmona, Jaime NG, Teresa Tognetti, Cristian Rios, Milena Jaramillo, Héctor Ospina, Melisa Arango, Carlos Andrés Palacio, Sara Olier, Benjamín Gómez, Mateo Agudelo, DG. Adriana García - Colombia
Pan-American BAQ Award
Single-Family Houses
Estudio Iturbide / Taller Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo
Mexico
Team members: Mauricio Rocha, Gabriela Carrillo, Rafael Carrillo, Gerson Huerto, Pavel Escobedo, Esterlina Campuzano, Elizabeth Waites, Enrique Ibarra.
Interventions in Existing Buildings with no Historic Interest, Protection or Listed as Heritage
Sinagoga UHP / Equipo de Arquitectura
Paraguay
Team members: Horacio Cherniavskiy, Viviana Pozzoli, Diego Soto.
Interventions in Protected Buildings, Listed as Heritage or in Buildings of Historic Interest
Cacmu Verde Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Mujeres Unidas / Jorge Andrade, Gabriela Naranjo, Emilio Thodes, María José Valdospinos
Ecuador
Collaborators: Franz Fischer, Sofía Ortiz, Ana Martínez
Intervention in Public or Collective Spaces
Parque La Mexicana / GDU + VMA
Mexico
Team members: Mario Schjetnan / Grupo de Diseño Urbano y Víctor Márquez Arquitectos / VMA, Fabián Tron / TRON Arquitectos y Jessica Navarrete.
Public or Private Facilities and Infrastructure
Escuela Rural Pivadenco / Duque Motta + MAPAA
Chile
Team members: Rodrigo Duque Motta, Cristián Larraín, Matías Madsen
Collaborators: Francois Jullian, Alessandra de Lisio, Nicoló Zingoni.
Administration, Institutional and Corporate Buildings
Building 8111 / taller de arquitectura de bogotá
Colombia
Team members: Daniel Bonilla, Marcela Albornoz, Iván Castro, Andrea Mozzato, Carolina Herera, Juan Camilo Brito, Juan Sebastián Rubio, Andrés Gutierrez, Alexander Roa. Santiago Ballen, Laura Santana, William Pauwels, Carlos Lopez, Tomas Vega, Nelsón Agudelo, Manuela Orozco.
Small Scale
Hilo House / Zeller & Moye
Mexico
Books
Los Cines de La Habana (The Cinemas of Havana) / María Victoria Zardoya + Marisol Marrero
Cuba
Academic Publications
Una ciudad noble y lógica: las propuestas de Carlos Contreras Elizondo para la Ciudad de México (A Dignified and Logical City: Carlos Contreras Elizondo's Proposals for Mexico City) / Alejandrina Escudero, Sandra Loyola, Israel Reyes
Mexico
Magazines
Revista Thema (Thema Magazine) / Roberto Fernández, Gustavo Hiriart, Lucía Stagnaro, Sofía Ganduglia, Bruno Álvarez
Uruguay
Multi-Unit Housing
Zoncuantla Apartments / RP Arquitectos
Mexico
National BAQ Awards
Single Family Houses, Multi-Unit Housing, Public or Private Facilities and Infrastructure, Administration, Institutional and Corporate, Small Scale
The Provider Productive Center / Natura Futura Arquitectura
Interventions in Protected Buildings, Listed as Heritage or in Buildings of Historic Interest; Interventions in Existing Buildings with no Historic Interest, Protection or Listed as Heritage; Intervention in Public or Collective Spaces
Operación entre Medianeras / Natura Futura Arquitectura
Magazines, Books, Academic Publications
- 1947 / Santiago Vanegas Peña
- Modernidad y vanguardia en América Latina 1930-1970 (Modernity and Avant-Garde in Latin America 1930-1970) / Alexandra Kennedy
