Carla Juaçaba (born 1976) is a Brazilian architect. She won the first arcVision Prize, an international award for women in architecture.
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Early life and education
She was born in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
and received a bachelor's degree in architecture and urbanism from Universidade Santa Úrsula
University Santa Úrsula is a private university (Roman Catholic) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It was founded in 1937 by Alceu Amoroso Lima. It was the first of Rio de Janeiro's higher education institutions to accept women. The main campus is loc ...
and then continued with post-graduate studies in structure at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ( pt, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) is a Jesuit, Catholic, pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Ar ...
. She has since taught at the Pontifical Catholic University. In 2000, she set up her own architecture practice. Juaçaba works on both public and private sector projects, mainly working on residential and cultural projects. She has worked with architect Gisela Magalhães on a number of projects related to museums starting from the time when she was an undergraduate. She has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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, at the University of Toronto
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and the school of architecture at Columbia University
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Career
The jury for the arcVision prize was particularly impressed by her work on the Humanidade Pavilion 2012, created for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
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. The jury found that she possessed "creativity in seeking unconventional solutions and enormous sensitivity to the context in which her works will reside". In 2014, she was nominated for a Schelling Architecture Award.[
Juaçaba was selected to design a chapel which would be part of the ]Vatican
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Vatican City, the city-state ruled by the pope in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museum
The Holy See
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's pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of Architecture (in Italian
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia) is an international exhibition of architecture from nations around the world, held in Venice, Italy, every other year. It was held on even years until 2018, but 202 ...
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Open House
exhibition about temporary housing held in Geneva.
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1976 births
Living people
Brazilian architects
Architects from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Universidade Santa Úrsula alumni
Brazilian women architects