Pablo Castro (born October 9, 1959) is an Argentinean-born architect and co-founder of the award-winning architectural design firm Obra Architects in New York City, Beijing, and Seoul.[1]
Pablo Castro | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 9, 1959 |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional de San Juan Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Obra Architects |
Education and early career edit
Born in San Juan, Castro left Argentina in 1989 to move to New York. He holds an Architecture diploma from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan and a MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. From 1995 to 2000, Castro served as Senior Associate at Steven Holl Architects, where he was in charge of the design and realization of the award-winning College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for the University of Minnesota. He spent four months in Helsinki detailing Steven Holl's breakthrough project Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art which opened to the public in 1998.
Professional life edit
Together with partner Jennifer Lee, he established Obra Architects in New York City in the year 2000.[2] The firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with their project Beatfuse! which opened to the public in the summer of 2006. Projects include Casa Osa,[3][4] a private residence in Costa Rica, the award-winning Sanhe Kindergarten in Beijing,[5] private residences in Argentina and New York,[6] and Exquisite Corpse, a solo show and installation featuring models and sketches on view at the Architektur Galerie Berlin in September 2016.[7]
Academic life edit
Castro has taught at RISD, Parsons, and Pratt Institute Graduate Architecture. He was Guest Interim Head of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005 and the Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1999. He has been an Honorary Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Juan since 2011.
Awards edit
He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2012–2013),[8] Winner of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (2006),[9] Architectural League of New York's 2005 Emerging Voices,[10] a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and Society of Architectural Historians de Montëquin Senior Fellow (2005). The work of his firm Obra Architects has won six American Institute of Architects NY Design Awards[11][12][13][14][15] and two Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards.
Publications edit
- 2016 Obra Architects Logic, Selected Projects 2003–2016, Publisher Arkitektur B, Copenhagen[16] ISBN 9788792700162
- 2005 Obra Architects monograph, Series of Contemporary Architects Studio Report in the United States, China Architecture & Building Press, United Asia Art & Design Cooperation, Beijing ISBN 7112073944
References edit
- ^ "Hyundai Card Culture Stories [전문가 칼럼] 2006년 젊은 건축가 프로그램 우승한 OBRA Architects, 전 세계 무대로 활동 폭 넓혀". superseries.kr. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "OBRA Architects – Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ Castro, Pablo; Lee, Jennifer. "Casa OSA / OBRA Architects". Archdaily. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "World-Architects Review Building of the Week". www.world-architects.com. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ "1004". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ Castro, Pablo; Lee, Jennifer. "Centrifugal Villa / OBRA Architects". Archdaily. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ GmbH, BauNetz Media (2016-09-08). "OBRA architects: Exquisite Corpse – Ausstellung in der Architektur Galerie Berlin". BauNetz (in German). Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ "Pablo Castro Estévez | School of Fine Arts Index". sofa.aarome.org. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ "Archive / Young Architects Program". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "The Architectural League of New York | 2005 Emerging Voices". Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "AIA New York Chapter : 2015 AIANY Design Awards Winners". aiany.aiany.org. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "AIA New York Announces 2014 Design Award Winners". Contract Magazine. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "2011 AIANY Design Awards Announced". News (formerly known as eOculus) – AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "AIA New York announced 2010 Design Award Winners". ArchDaily. 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "2008 Winners of AIA New York Design Awards". Dexigner. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ^ "Obra Architects Logic, Selected Projects 2003–2016 – Idea Books". www.ideabooks.nl. Retrieved 2016-11-28.