Archinect - News2024-11-07T20:11:56-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150452574/chicago-architecture-biennial-picks-uic-school-of-architecture-director-florencia-rodriguez-to-lead-cab-6-shift
Chicago Architecture Biennial picks UIC School of Architecture director Florencia Rodriguez to lead CAB 6, 'Shift' Josh Niland2024-11-01T15:17:00-04:00>2024-11-04T19:41:39-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1a/1af2e97ba4340f95115b074fde5a47df.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The scope of next year’s <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/465082/chicago-architecture-biennial" target="_blank">Chicago Architecture Biennial</a> (CAB 6) will be responsive to changes within architecture and other salient issues united under the theme <em>Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change</em> and curated by <a href="https://archinect.com/UICSoA" target="_blank">UIC School of Architecture</a> director <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/2018456/florencia-rodriguez" target="_blank">Florencia Rodriguez</a>. </p>
<p>The Biennial’s first female and Latin American Director, Rodriguez, will seek to chart a "new agenda for contemporary design" through the inclusion of installations, exhibitions, virtual initiatives, and other educational events taken from an international open call for what is now North America’s largest contemporary architecture exhibition.</p>
<p>She says the exhibition will be "an opportunity to gather global experiences, ideas, and projects that create an archive of contemporary architecture to inform decision making, education, debate, and collective thinking about the world we design."</p>
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UIC has named Florencia Rodriguez as its new director Josh Niland2022-06-16T12:26:00-04:00>2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/31/3169592e09a658af50d4dfd7cbedfbbe.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/UICSoA" target="_blank">University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture</a> now officially has a new leader following Wednesday’s announcement that editor, writer, and academic <a href="https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/florencia-rodriguez/" target="_blank">Florencia Rodriguez</a> has been named its next director.</p>
<p>Rodriguez will step into the role beginning in August. A statement from the school promised her tenure would encapsulate a desire to “promote the school’s pursuit to liberate and install new forms of collective association and material arrangement through all media of architectural design and research.”</p>
<p>A native Argentinian, Rodriguez comes to the position having lectured and taught theory courses at <a href="https://archinect.com/BostonArchitecturalCollege" target="_blank">Boston Architectural College</a>, Universidad del Litoral, and <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/6790083/monterrey-institute-of-technology-itesm" target="_blank">ITESM</a>. Before moving to her post at <a href="https://archinect.com/harvard" target="_blank">Harvard GSD</a>, she was a visiting professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella’s School of Architecture and Universidad de Palermo. She was a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1350282/loeb-fellowship" target="_blank">Loeb Fellow</a> in 2013 and pursued her own degrees in architecture at the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/29238121/universidad-de-belgrano" target="_blank">Universidad de Belgrano</a> between 1993 and 2000.</p>
<p>Rodriguez is known for ...</p>