Carlos Brillembourg

Carlos Brillembourg is an architect based in New York City. He is the owner of Carlos Brillembourg Architects, a firm that he founded in 1984.

Carlos Brillembourg
Born
Caracas, Venezuela
Alma materColumbia University
Years active1975 – present
Websitecarlosbrillembourgarchitects.com

Brillembourg was an author and the editor of Latin American Architecture 1929–1960: Contemporary Reflections, which was published in 2004.[1] He has been the contributing editor for architecture for Bomb magazine since 1992.[2]

Early life and education

Brillembourg was born in Caracas, and his family moved to Long Island when he was 8. He received his Masters in architecture from Columbia University in 1975.[3]

Career

Early jobs

After graduating, Brillembourg worked at W.J. Alcock, an architecture firm in Caracas and later at Mitchell/Giurgola in New York. In 1980, he founded his own practice, Brillembourg Arquitectos y Urbanistas in Caracas.[4] Later, he established an office in New York[5] and maintained two offices until 1998.[2]

Brillembourg was a founding member of the Instituto de Arquitectura Urbana (IAU) in Caracas (1977). As the director of this organization, he led a team of twenty architects that produced urban design solutions for the city of Caracas and other cities such as Ciudad Guyana.[6] Parallel to his practice, he has taught at the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, in New York, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.[7][8]

Recent positions and awards

Brillembourg received The Biennial of Architecture Award in Venezuela for a single-family residence (Palmasola).[9] His proposal for a New World Center was exhibited in the American pavilion of the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2002.[10][11]

Brillembourg was an author and the editor of Latin American Architecture 1929–1960: Contemporary Reflections, which was published in 2004.[1] He has been the contributing editor for Architecture for Bomb magazine since 1992.[2]

Personal life

Brillembourg is married to Karin Waisman, an artist. Their house in Southampton, which they designed, has been featured in multiple publications.[4][7]

Awards and honors

Notable projects
  • Sportscenter Interalumina 1982–84
  • World Arts Center 2002
  • Hildreth House 2007
  • Sagaponak 1983–2010

Bibliography
  • Latin American Architecture 1929–1960: Contemporary Reflections (2004)
  • Caracas: Towards A New City 1938–1958
  • Unbuilt. Raimund Abraham (2011)
  • Beyond The Supersquare (2013)
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gollark: Which means accurately made lenses and stuff too, I guess?
gollark: I also had the idea of Discworld-style semaphore-tower networks driven by magical systems instead of human operators, but that would probably also be too complex to implement.
gollark: I see. It's kind of hard trying to figure out what sort of modern stuff would work in a world where most of the stuff we kind of assume exists doesn't.
gollark: I was reading the telegraph thing, and wondering if they could practically do radio, or if that would need too much power or electronics knowledge/capability.

See also

References
  1. "Off the Shelves". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  2. "Carlos Brillembourg". Store Front News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  3. "Las Ubres No Piensan, Actuan". El Nacional. 2005. p. 7.
  4. "A Spare Stage for the Spectacle of Life". The New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  5. "CARLOS BRILLEMBOURG AND ASSOCIADOS:La Palmasola". Casa Vogue. April 1985.
  6. "LLADRO' ABANDERA LA SINGLADURA DE UN CENTRO CULTURAL ESPAÑOL EN EL CORAZON DE NUEVA YORK". ABC. April 24, 1988.
  7. "The Hamptons Getaway of Artist Karin Waisman and Architect Carlos Brillembourg". Cottages and Gardens. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  8. "EL PROTAGONISTA Carlos Brillembourg". El Universal. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  9. "UN VENEZOLANO TRAZA EL FUTURO DE LAS TORRES GEMELAS". El Nacional. April 14, 2002.
  10. "Competition Jury". Grand Course 100. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  11. "LA FINE DEL SECOLO AMERICANO". Il Manifesto. September 12, 2002.
  12. "2013 FAIA Announcement". American Institute of Architects.
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