Fernando Diez

Editorial Director of Summa+, Professor of Urbanism at the Universidad de Palermo (UP).

  • 1 / 10

    6th Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – Cairo, April 2019.

    Fernando Diez, Editorial Director, “Summa+” and Professor of Urbanism, Universidad de Palermo (UP), Buenos Aires, Argentina at the 6th Holcim Forum held at AUC, Egypt.

  • 2 / 10

    6th LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – Cairo, April 2019.

    Fernando Diez, Professor of Urbanism, Universidad de Palermo (UP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the 6th LafargeHolcim Forum held at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.

  • 3 / 10

    Fernando Diez, Editorial Director, Summa+ and Professor of Urbanism, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina at the 5th International LafargeHolcim Forum on “Infrastructure Space” held April 2016 in Detroit, USA.

  • 4 / 10

    Fernando Diez, Editorial Director, Summa+; and Professor of Urbanism, Universidad de Palermo (UP), Argentina at the LafargeHolcim Awards jury meeting for Latin America at Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil in June, 2017.

  • 5 / 10

    Fernando Diez is Editorial Director of Summa+ and Professor of Urbanism at the Universidad de Palermo (UP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  • 6 / 10

    The Holcim Awards Ambassadors met in Lausanne, Switzerland in October 2012 (l-r): Fernando Diez (Argentina), Benjamin Hossbach (Germany), Reed Kroloff (USA), Dirk Hebel (Germany), Sarah Graham (USA), Joe Osae-Addo (Ghana) and Erwin Viray (Japan).

  • 7 / 10

    The Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America met in Mexico City, Mexico in July 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Fernando Diez, Yolanda Kakabadse, Marc M. Angélil, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, José Luis Cortés (Head), Sara Topelson, Bruno Stagno, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Vanderley M. John.

  • 8 / 10

    Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize 2008 Latin America: (l-r) Fernando Diez, Thais Meireles, Rafael Saraiva, and Antonio Saraiva.

  • 9 / 10

    Fernando Diez presenting prize winners at the Holcim Awards 2008 Latin America ceremony held at the San Ildefonso Old College in Mexico City, Mexico.

  • 10 / 10

    Overview of working group topic - Green Urbanism - Fernando Diez, Director Dept of History and Theory, University of Palermo (Argentina)

Fernando Diez is Editorial Director of Summa+ and Professor of Urbanism at the Universidad de Palermo (UP), Argentina and was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America in 2008, 2014, 2017 & 2020.

Last updated: July 07, 2021 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fernando Diez is also Director of the Department of History & Theory, Faculty of Architecture at UP.

Fernando Diez studied architecture at the Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina and Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

He is author of several books including Buenos Aires y algunas constantes en las transformaciones urbanas (Editorial de Belgrano, 1996) and Crisis de Autenticidad: Cambios en los modos de producción de la arquitectura argentina (Summa+, 2008) and Unsettling Agenda: Environment and Society, The First Ten Years of the Twenty-First Century (Centerline, University of Texas Press, 2016).

His critical and theoretical work has been widely published in Argentina and internationally. He is also contributor to the Op-ed section of La Nación newspaper in Buenos Aires, where he writes on ecology, urban development and environmental issues.

Fernando Diez is Professor in Postrgraduate Programs at Universidad de DiTella, Universidad de Mar del Plata, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad de Mendoza, and has been visiting professor and lecturer at a large number of universities internationally.

He holds a chair at the Argentine Academy of Sciences of the Environment.

He moderated the workshop Green urbanism – Between ecology and economy at the 2nd International Holcim Forum 2007 in Shanghai.

Related information

Organizations:

Location

pin Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

News

Buoyant Housing in Brazil

Media Release

Responses to pressing challenges

Zurich, Switzerland

Holcim Awards

Loreta Castro Reguera to head Holcim Awards jury for Latin America in 2020

Zurich, Switzerland

‘A’A’: Global design competitions

Reservoirs of culture

Medellín, Colombia