Colombian/Italian Architect holding a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Architecture received with honors and a PhD in Art and Architecture. Co-directed the award winning film Euritmia; coauthored the books: 4°Lat. N 2.600 msnm Daniel Bermúdez Architecture; Germán Samper; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Public Library and Cultural Center; Great Urban Projects; the edition of the XXIII Colombian Architecture Biennial 2012; is the author of the book Counterpoint and Confluence in the Architectural Concert: Virgilio Barco Public Library; and has written over forty published articles and book chapters.
He has experience in participatory social design, architectural design and construction, working in both the private and public sectors in Colombia on projects of different scales and varying uses such as, for example, the project won in an architecture competition to design the Museum for San Agustin’s Archaeological Park, declared a world heritage center by UNESCO. He has also served as head consultant in the formulation of an upcoming new Faculty in Art, Architecture and Design in Colombia. Presently he is an associate professor and researcher in the Department of Architecture at the Universidad de los Andes teaching courses in architecture history and theory. He is the the director of Dearq Journal of Architecture and coordinator of theCOLOMBIA INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT.
His architectural research incorporates methodological and thematic resources used in certain areas of the social sciences, the humanities, the arts and especially music, literature and film. Among the research subjects developed in recent years are: the monographic study of the work of modern and contemporary Colombian and Latin American architects; the study of the processes of experience and composition of music, cinema and architecture in interaction; the theories and experimentations with the form in art and architecture; the role of architecture in processes of reconciliation and peace; Narco-architecture in Colombia and Mexico; and symbolic relations between architecture, politics and power.
Recipient of the 1st prize in the XXVI Colombian Architecture Biennale 2018, publications category, for Dearq, has also obtained research grants from the Open Society Foundation, CESED (Study Center on Security and Drugs) and IDARTES (Bogota’s Cultural Institute), amongst others. His film Euritmia has obtained two first prices and one second prize in international film and architecture festivals in Turkey, France and Bosnia I Herzegovina. Juan Pablo has received a full scholarship for academic excellency (Universidad Nacional) and was preselected in the group of the best 13 Colombian architects under 40 for the II Latin-American Architecture Biennale of 2011 in Pamplona, Spain. The co-authored published work in which he has participated has received an Award in the History, theory and criticism category at the XXII Colombian Architecture Biennial, 2010; has been selected at the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture of 2012; and has obtained three honorable mention awards in the Colombian Architecture Biennials of 2008, 2012 and 2014.
Audiovisual above: Fragment of the film EURITMIA (Enrico Mandirola and Juan Pablo Aschner). Drawings: Alejandro Henríquez
He has experience in participatory social design, architectural design and construction, working in both the private and public sectors in Colombia on projects of different scales and varying uses such as, for example, the project won in an architecture competition to design the Museum for San Agustin’s Archaeological Park, declared a world heritage center by UNESCO. He has also served as head consultant in the formulation of an upcoming new Faculty in Art, Architecture and Design in Colombia. Presently he is an associate professor and researcher in the Department of Architecture at the Universidad de los Andes teaching courses in architecture history and theory. He is the the director of Dearq Journal of Architecture and coordinator of theCOLOMBIA INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT.
His architectural research incorporates methodological and thematic resources used in certain areas of the social sciences, the humanities, the arts and especially music, literature and film. Among the research subjects developed in recent years are: the monographic study of the work of modern and contemporary Colombian and Latin American architects; the study of the processes of experience and composition of music, cinema and architecture in interaction; the theories and experimentations with the form in art and architecture; the role of architecture in processes of reconciliation and peace; Narco-architecture in Colombia and Mexico; and symbolic relations between architecture, politics and power.
Recipient of the 1st prize in the XXVI Colombian Architecture Biennale 2018, publications category, for Dearq, has also obtained research grants from the Open Society Foundation, CESED (Study Center on Security and Drugs) and IDARTES (Bogota’s Cultural Institute), amongst others. His film Euritmia has obtained two first prices and one second prize in international film and architecture festivals in Turkey, France and Bosnia I Herzegovina. Juan Pablo has received a full scholarship for academic excellency (Universidad Nacional) and was preselected in the group of the best 13 Colombian architects under 40 for the II Latin-American Architecture Biennale of 2011 in Pamplona, Spain. The co-authored published work in which he has participated has received an Award in the History, theory and criticism category at the XXII Colombian Architecture Biennial, 2010; has been selected at the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture of 2012; and has obtained three honorable mention awards in the Colombian Architecture Biennials of 2008, 2012 and 2014.
Audiovisual above: Fragment of the film EURITMIA (Enrico Mandirola and Juan Pablo Aschner). Drawings: Alejandro Henríquez