Mónica Bertolino (born July 12, 1957) is an Argentinean architect and professor of architecture. She also owns and operates Estudio Bertolino-Barrado, an architecture studio with locations in
Argentina
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, and
Spain
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. The studio obtained the Diploma to the Merit - Architecture (2002-2006), for Visual Arts at the
Konex Award
Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex Awards, are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation honouring Argentine cultural personalities.
History and purpose
Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The p ...
s in 2012.
Biography
Mónica Bertolino was born in
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province an ...
. Her father was an architect. She entered the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, of the
National University of Córdoba
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during the last year of the ''Taller Total'', graduating in 1981. She completed her postgraduate studies from the
Catholic University of Córdoba
The Universidad Católica de Córdoba (UCC) is a Jesuit university in Argentina that was founded on June 8, 1956, immediately after private universities were authorized.
In brief
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, where she later taught.
Since 1984, Bertolino has taught at several national schools of architecture, including the
Littoral National University in
Santa Fe, Argentina
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.
At the studio of architect and urbanist
Miguel Ángel Roca, she met Carlos Barrado, together with whom she co-founded the Bertolino Barrado Architecture Firm, which has received awards.
Since 2009, together with architect
Margarita Trlin, Bertolino has coordinated RedSur, a Latin-American interchange network.
Awards and recognition
* 2002: Vitruvio Award of the MNBA.
* 2002: Honorable Mention in the
Bienal Panamericana de Quito with the Jardín botánico de la municipalidad de Córdoba.
* 2010: Prize in the
Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo ''Panorama de Obras'' for the Farm at
Capilla del Monte
Capilla del Monte is a small city in the northeastern part of the provinces of Argentina, province of Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Argentina, located by the Sierras Chicas mountain chain, in the northern end of the Punilla Valley. It ha ...
(BIAU).
* 2011: 3rd prize in the ARQ
Clarín Awards for the urban project Pasarela Las Varillas and Honorable Mention for the works Casas Múltiples and Casa en Potrero de Garay.
* 2012: Diploma to the Merit - Architecture 2002-2006 in Visual Arts at the Konex Awards.
Bibliography
* Adria, Miquel. New Latin American Landscape Arquitecture, 2009.
Nasisbooks* Montaner, Josep Maria
Arquitectura y crítica en Latinoamérica Nobukosa, 2011
*Gómez Luque, Mariano
Doce arquitectos contemporáneos Nobukosa, 2011
References
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20th-century Argentine architects
Argentine women architects
National University of Córdoba alumni
Academic staff of the National University of Córdoba
1957 births
People from Córdoba, Argentina
Living people