Reading Ofelia Sanou’s “La Arquitectura.”
A collaboration with the Ofelia Sanou Commemorative Chair. The short lectures offers a five-point guide to reading one of Ofelia Sanou’s most important texts. (In Spanish).
Guido Saénz: The making of the city.
As a collaboration with the Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica, this short intervention reviews the contributions of Guido Saénz to the transformation of the urban fabric of the city of San José, linking his role to a cultural and political project, also reflecting on new patterns, actors and tendencies in the making of the city’s scapes.
Ofelia Sanou’s contributions to research on the built environment.
Keynote lecture at the Research Colloquium of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Costa Rica.
Free trade zones and transnational corporations within Costa Rican cityscapes.
As a collaboration with the Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica, this short intervention reviews the contributions of Guido Saénz to the transformation of the urban fabric of the city of San José, linking his role to a cultural and political project, also reflecting on new patterns, actors and tendencies in the making of the city’s scapes.
Ofelia Sanou Conmemorative Chair
The lecture introduces the reasons behind the creation of the Ofelia Sanou Chair and delves into Sanou’s contributions to grasping the spatial history of Central America.
Architecture of the 20th Century.
The lecture reviews the main points in Sanou’s Lar Arquitectura, focusing on how the author contributions inform contemporary research.
Natalia Solano-Meza 