Ana Valderrama
Ana Valderrama
Architect - Landscape Architect - Ex Associate Dean
- School of Arquitecture - Rosario National University
Professional Information
Ana
Valderrama
Architect - Landscape Architect - Ex Associate Dean
School of Arquitecture - Rosario National University
Education
Education, Honors & Awards
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Master of Landscape Architecture
(2013)
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 2024. FIRST PRIZE XIII BIAU “Climate. Actions towards a good living” (Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urban Design) category: other coordinates. Project: Book Design-Build Studios in Latin America. Teaching through social agenda. (Oro, 2022). 2024. UNR ANUAL AWARD to professors committed to the values of Argentinian public university. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. 2023. PAULINE TILTON KENNEDY PRIZE. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) Collage of Fine and Applied Arts. Department of Landscape Architecture. Project: “Dissident assemblages * Life drives.” 2022. HONORIFIC MENTION 18th. SCA-CPAU PRIZE to the book “Poéticas Colectivas.” Given by Association of Architects of Buenos Aires. 2018. FIRST PRIZE TO ACADEMIC PRACTICES BIAAR 2018 (Argentinian Biennial 2018). Project “1-1 Scale. Experimental tracks in architectural design process of determinacy. An interdisciplinary curriculum for the three first years of architecture program.” 2013. ASLA GRADUATE AWARD OF MERIT. American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). 2013. CELA LIFETIME HONOR MEMBER of Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society, Psi Chapter sponsored by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). 2006. MEDAL OF HONOR. Granted by FAPyD UNR. 6th position (over 200 students). AWARDS IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY WORK 2024. SOY ARQUITECTA NATIONAL AWARD in the category “Activist.” Soy Arquitecta distinguishes women architects for their commitment and contribution on countering hetero-patriarchal structures of power in professional, academic, and scientific fields. Granted by National Foundation for the Arts, and Soy Arquitecta Punto Net. 2022. PRE-SELECTION TO INCLUSION AWARD. NYC ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL. Authors: Matéricos Periféricos. Project: “Industrial District Project.” 2022. FIRST PRIZE XII BIAU “Dwelling on the margins” (Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urban Design) category teaching practices. Project: “Parque Educativo La Carcova” Authors: Matéricos Periféricos, A77, IA UNSAM, Public Space LAB UNC, la Walter Gropius Studio (UBA - DAAD), Studios SuE and IRGE from Stuttgart, University); financially supported by DAAD, STO foundation, and Aktion (Germany). 2020. FIRST NATIONAL PRIZE “SOLIDARITY ARGENTINIAN ARCHITECTURE” (Annual Argentinian Prize) organized by Argentinian Council of Architecture and Urbanism (CPAU) and Association of Architects of Buenos Aires (SCA) Built Work “Parque Educativo La Carcova.” 2017-2019. ANNUAL ARGENTINIAN NATIONAL PRIZE FADEA-SAINT GOBAIN TO SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN: 5 Distinctions, and a Second Prize in 2019; 1 selection in 2018; 5 selections and 1 honorific mention in 2017. 2010-2024. ARQUISUR. ANNUAL LATIN AMERICAN PRIZE to community works: First Prize in 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, and 2012; Second Prize in 2024 and 2014; Third Prize in 2024 and 2010; Honorific Mention in 2015. 2014-2018. ARGENTINIAN BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE. 10 distinctions total in BIA-AR 2014, BIA-AR 2016, BIA-AR 2018. 2018. INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE OF VENICE 2018. SELECTION by International Committee TO REPRESENT ARGENTINA. 2017. DISTINCTION granted by CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES OF SANTA FE STATE to Matéricos Periféricos for its social impact on communities in need 2016-2017. DISTINCTION granted by ARGENTINIAN CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES to Matéricos Periféricos for its social impact on communities in need. 2015. FIRST PRIZE TO DESIGN EXPLORATION OF BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE. Built work: “Un lugar de integración en Empalme Graneros.” Authors: Matericos Periféricos. Buenos Aires, October, 2015. 2010. FIRST INTERNATIONAL PRIZE “ARQUITECTURA EME 3”. to projects I headed within the Secretary of Planning of Rosario City. Barcelona, October, 2010. 2006. HONORIFIC MENTION INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION “MUSEO-PUENTE EN VENECIA.” Authors: Ana Valderrama, Daniel Viu, et. al. Organized by Architectum. Venice, Italy. 2006. HONORIFIC MENTION CICOP COMPETITION to DOCUMENTARY FILM. Project: “Balneario Los Angeles.” Authors: Ana Valderrama and Javier Elias. Centro Internacional para la Preservación del Patrimonio. VIII Congreso Internacional de Patrimonio Arquitectónico.” Buenos Aires, 2006.
Personal Information
Argentina
Rosario
Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Arts, swimming
21-25 Years
Ana Valderrama is an Architect (UNR) and Landscape Architect (UIUC) and PhD Candidate at the Department of Landscape Architecture of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). She is Founder and Principal of Cardo, a Landscape Architecture firm with base in Rosario, Argentina. She is also cofounder member and principal of Matéricos Periféricos Group, a civil organization for spatial and social justice with base in Rosario, Argentina. She is full professor since 2010 and head of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program since 2018 at Universidad Nacional del Rosario, Argentina. She has served as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture of the same University in the period 2015-2019 and as Director of Innovation at the Science and Technology Secretary (UNR). Valderrama has a long-lasting professional experience in public and community-based architecture, design for climate change and resilience, design and build, and accupunctural urban planning. She has been visiting professor in different universities in the US, Europe, and Latin America. She is author of several publications, including the books Poéticas Colectivas (Bismanediciones, 2019), and Matéricos Periféricos 15 “Diez Años del Taller Valderrama.” (UNR Editora, 2021). She has received more than 20 prizes and distinctions for her professional and community work including the recent preselection to the 2022 Inclusion Award from the New York City Architecture Biennial, and the BIAU (Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism) 2022 Prize “Inhabiting the margins” for a collaborative project with other groups of designers. Ana has been recipient of academic scholarships, grants, and fellowships, including Fulbright Scholarship 2011-2013, and Graham Foundation Grant in 2022 along with Felipe Mesa and Gustavo Diéguez.
Architecture, and Landscape Architecture