EVENT DESCRIPTION
Immersed in revolutionary times and impacted by the pandemic, the School of Architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar is reassessing how to operate in a new environment of difficulty. What new paths are open? What opportunities are there to move ahead? Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80 will talk on his experience as a student and as a professor of architecture at USB. Through text and images he will describe the origins of the School and its evolution through academic, economic, and political challenges.
SPEAKER
Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80
Professor Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80 is an architect, an educator, and a consultant to various private and public clients and institutions in Venezuela. He received his M.Arch in Advanced Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then he has served as a Professor of Architecture at the Department of Design at Universidad Simon Bolivar, from which he received his professional degree in 1977.
He has led the design of many cultural and institutional projects in Latin America including: Cellular Biology Laboratories and the Marine Biology Research Center to Universidad Simon Bolivar, and has won many design competitions for projects including: New Chapels for Cementerio del Este, Caracas and the Faculty of Law and Politics for the Universidad Central de Venezuela (with Frontado & Larranaga architects).
CO-SPEAKERS
Professor Franco Micucci
Franco Micucci graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas in 1989 and received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1992. He has served as a Professor of Architecture at USB since 1993 and has taught in the Master of Urban Design at Universidad Metropolitana since 1995. As a practitioner, he has designed and realized a variety of architecture and urban design projects and has been awarded in many prominent design competitions.
Professor Aliz Mena
Aliz Mena received her B.A. in Architecture from Universidad Simon Bolivar in 2004 and received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design as a Fulbright Scholar from the Pratt Institute in 2011. She serves as Professor and Chair of Architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar. She divides her professional activities between a design studio and an NGO, through which she has realized a variety of architecture, urban design, and community projects.
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