Estudio Planta
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estudio Planta is a family-run, three-generation practice with different configurations from 1925, 1970, and 2010. The office has received numerous prizes (National Architecture Prize, International Biennale of Buenos Aires, SCA-CPAU), been exhibited (XV Venice Biennale, X São Paulo Biennale), and published (2G, Plot, Volume, Wallpaper). Ana Rascovsky holds a master’s degree from the Berlage Institute Rotterdam (2002), a D.E.A. from the École d’Architecture de Versailles (2001), and an architecture degree from FADU-UBA (1996). She is a design professor at UBA and has taught, lectured, and exhibited at Hochschule Anhalt Dessau, Academy of Architecture Amsterdam, KU Leuven, University of Chicago, Venice IUAV, and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She is a founding member of Supersudaca, a think tank on architecture and urbanism.
Irene Joselevich graduated from FADU-UBA (1968) and was an academic researcher until 2000. She has published nine books on Buenos Aires’ architectural heritage (IPU) and the Buenos Aires Architectural Guide, for which she received the National Architecture Award (2004).
2025 Biennial Project
Project Overview
Informal Flood
This project envisions Buenos Aires in 2075, transformed by climate collapse and the breakdown of formal planning. As rising heat, floods, and sea levels render the ground floor uninhabitable, a new city takes shape above—elevated, lightweight, and improvised. With minimal state oversight, residents reclaim the urban fabric. They construct modular dwellings in the air, negotiating shared airspace through informal, neighbor-to-neighbor agreements. Suspended platforms and communal cores support daily life, while co-modules—rented by the hour and easily reconfigured—serve those excluded from the old formal city. In this imagined future, informality is not a sign of marginality, but a form of urban intelligence: adaptive, collaborative, and resilient. It offers a creative model for how cities might endure—and evolve—in the face of environmental and political uncertainty.
Previous work
Project Overview
Venue
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Address
840 N. Michigan Ave
Description
The Biennial expands its footprint downtown with the opening of its fifth site at 840 N. Michigan Avenue, transforming more than 65,000 square feet of space on the Magnificent Mile into a dynamic hub for art, design, and dialogue.
