Fernando Diez

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

Fernando Diez

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    6th Holcim Forum “Re-materializing Construction” - Cairo, Egypt

    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.

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    6th Holcim Forum “Re-materializing Construction” - Cairo, Egypt

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

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    5th Holcim Forum “Infrastructure Space” - Detroit, USA

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

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2017 jury for region Latin America

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

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    4th Holcim Forum “Economy of Sustainable Construction” - Mumbai, India

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

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2012 - Awards Ambasssador meeting

    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).

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 jury for region Latin America

    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.

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 for region Latin America

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

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 for region Latin America

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

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    2nd Holcim Forum “Urban_Trans_Formation” - Shanghai, China

    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 Foundation Awards jury for Latin America in 2008, 2014, 2017 & 2020.

Last updated: June 29, 2024 Buenos Aires, Argentina

He moderated the workshop “Green urbanism – Between ecology and economy” at the 2nd Holcim Forum 2007 “Urban_Trans_Formation” in Shanghai, China.

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