Antonia Lehmann Explained

Antonia Lehmann
Birth Name:Antonia Lehmann Scasi-Buffa
Birth Date:1955
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile
Alma Mater:Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Occupation:Architect
Organization:Izquierdo Lehmann Architects
Notable Works:Cruz del Sur[1]
Manantiales Building[2]
Awards:National Architecture Award of Chile 2004
Website:https://www.izquierdolehmann.com/en/

Antonia Lehmann (born 1955) is a Chilean architect and cofounder of Izquierdo Lehmann architecture firm. In 2004, she became the first woman to receive Chile's National Architecture Award.

Career

Lehmann graduated as an architect from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1982.[3] Two years later, together with Luis Izquierdo, she founded Izquierdo Lehmann, an architecture firm based in Santiago, Chile.[4]

Her work has been described as taking "a position of equidistance between vernacular tradition and imported modernity."[5]

In 2010, the President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, appointed her as Director of the advisory board for the Chilean New Urban Policy, a position she held until 2014. Since then, she has been a member of the National Committee for Urban Development.

Awards and honors

In 2004, Lehmann won the National Architecture Prize in Chile, becoming the first woman to ever achieve this honor.

That same year, the Manantiales building was the only South American project to be featured in Tall Buildings, an exhibition curated by MoMA in New York showcasing "the newest innovations in skyscrapers".[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cruz del Sur Building / Izquierdo Lehmann . ArchDaily. 3 December 2009 .
  2. Web site: Manantiales Building in Las Condes, Santiago . Arquitectura Viva.
  3. Web site: Antonia Lehmann . Izquierdo Lehmann Architects . 26 April 2023.
  4. Web site: #ArquitectasColegiadas – Homenaje a nuestras colegiadas Premio Nacional de Arquitectura y Premio Nacional de Urbanismo . Colegio de Arquitectos . 7 March 2023 . Spanish.
  5. Web site: Flores . Cuca . Veinticinco años de arquitectura chilena . Arquitectura Viva . 26 April 2023 . Spanish.
  6. Web site: Tall Buildings . MoMA . 26 April 2023.