September 3, 2024 College Welcomes Javier 厂谩苍肠丑别锄, JSa, as BarberMcMurry Endowed Professor
麻豆传媒鈥檚 College of Architecture and Design welcomes Javier 厂谩苍肠丑别锄, HFAIA, founding partner and principal of , as the 2024 BarberMcMurry Endowed Professor.
In 1996, 厂谩苍肠丑别锄 founded JSa, a leading architecture practice in the renewal of the Mexico City, with more than 70 employees and offices in Mexico and Peru. The firm is well known for their comprehensive architectural interventions that rehabilitate and restore the urban fabric. They have designed and built over 180 projects in Mexico, South America and Europe.
In 2006, JSa鈥檚 project, Brazil 44, a small housing rehabilitation project in Mexico City, won 厂谩苍肠丑别锄 and the firm the Golden Lion for Best Urban Projects at the Venice Biennale.
鈥淭his was a very small project, but with big importance,鈥 said 厂谩苍肠丑别锄. “People do not need the same space to live. Like families today, they do not need to have a common structure. Families subdivide, they add, subtract, they work and live. So how do you make a space that can adapt to all those needs that families today have?鈥
This type of adaptive design will be incorporated into 厂谩苍肠丑别锄’s fall studio with students from three of the college鈥檚 schools. They will embrace 厂谩苍肠丑别锄’s rehabilitative practice as they reimagine the former General Shale building in Downtown Knoxville, maintaining the building footprint and adapting it into a community hub that celebrates the proximity to the Tennessee River.
This week, 厂谩苍肠丑别锄 will take 16 architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture students to Mexico City and Oaxaca to view and other impactful sustainably focused designs and landscapes in Mexico.
Join the college for 厂谩苍肠丑别锄鈥檚 , at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 23.
厂谩苍肠丑别锄 graduated as an architect with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de M茅xico (UNAM), received his master’s degree in real estate development from Columbia University in New York City. In 2008, he was selected as an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Since 2013, the BarberMcMurry Professorship has funded internationally recognized architects as teachers and researchers for the benefit of students at the College of Architecture and Design.
The professorship was established by Knoxville-based firm, , to promote design excellence through teaching and research by a prominent visiting professor who is an internationally or nationally recognized practicing architect. It is the result of a bequest from Blanche Barber and a match by BarberMcMurry Architects to produce the $1 million endowment.
Previous BarberMcMurry Endowed Professors include Lawrence Scarpa in 2013; Wendell Burnette in 2015; Billie Faircloth in 2018; Mitchell Squire in 2020; and Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler in 2021; and Ryan Jones in 2022.
