KARLA
MONTAUTI


Award-winning architecture and art practice working across buildings, territories and cultural narratives.

London / Buenos Aires / Caracas




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    Architecture, art, territory and spatial research through printed and editorial formats.

    Books / catalogues / interviews / essays / project features / visual research.

    Publications understood as an extension of practice: a space for documenting processes, constructing narratives, and connecting design work with broader cultural and urban contexts.




    Shaping the future of London’s public spaces through creative collaboration. BENOY London

    2024-11-03
    AIA UK Emerging Professionals Director, Paolo Mendoza with the 2024 Student Charrette jurors: Taylor Rogers (Hopkins Architects), Samantha Cooke (KPF), Karla Montauti (Benoy), and Mark Breeze (Architectural Association).

    AIA UK - English Article


    Shaping the future of London’s public spaces through creative collaboration. BENOY London

    2024-11-03
    2024 Noel Hill Research Award Jurors: Samantha Cooke (Director, KPF), Taylor Rogers (Associate Director, Hopkins Architects), and Karla Montauti (Associate Director, Benoy).

    AIA UK - English Article


    Art or architecture? Karla Montauti discusses her passion for design. BENOY London

    2024-07-03
      Design is my life. As an Architect and Urban Designer, my role is to jump between scales from macro to micro and micro to macro, and to examine the layers within cities and buildings to decipher what makes a place unique. I enjoy finding those common threads that link all the projects and discovering the constants and the thinking behind them. 

    Benoy - English Article


    Lecture 10 Architects x 10 mins
    Arquitectura es Femenino. Caracas, Venezuela

    2023-12-23
    10 Venezuelan architects titled “10x10” - Among them Ana Vargas, Carolina Tinoco, Carolina Heredia, Silvia Soonets, Karla Montauti, Mayra Madriz, Karla Sierralta, Veronica Liprandi, Elisa Silva, Isabel Caleya. Who will share a little of their experience and knowledge.

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    EntreRayas 140 Printed Magazine. Arquitectura con Sustancia Femenina

    2023-03-24
    Interview about the creative process. Unique edition that contains: an article with a vision of the trajectory of women at a national and international level, 38 interviews with prominent professionals and 13 projects carried out by women in architecture and art

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    Summa+ 187 Printed Book Magazine . Arquitectas. La Resistencia Ecológica

    2021-10-01
    Summa+187 Special Edition Architects projects section dedicated to the 1st Prize Public Competition of Ideas to Rethink the City of Resistencia, Chaco Province, Argentina.

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    Viernes de Eventos. Karla Montauti: Concursos y Ficciones // 2021-I

    2021-06-18
    En el marco de los Viernes de Eventos, presentamos la charla “Concursos y Ficciones: Límites difusos” de la arquitecto Karla Montauti. Caracas, Venezuela

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    Sol y Sombra: Environmental Diplomacy in the Context of Human Movement and Shadow Economies

    2024-09-02
    This year Sol y Sombra: A Journey up the Orinoco will be presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, as part of the Future School Exhibition, in collaboration with the Global Free Unit at the Korean Pavilion. Invited Expert: Karla Montauti: architect, artist, educator, Buenos Aires University. Umeå School of Architecture. Sweden.

    Arch Daily - English Article


    1st Prize. Clarín Newspaper. ARQ Digital Magazine. Resistencia redefines its urban plan looking towards Barcelona.

    2021-04-09
    The project, which received first prize in the national ideas competition "Public Space and Mobility in the Central Area of ​​the City of Resistencia," was designed with Barcelona in mind. The new center of the capital of Chaco will feature microforests, sustainable mobility, and ecological axes.

    Clarin Newspaper - Spanish Article


    ARQ Clarín Newspaper Printed Magazine. Resistencia redefines its urban plan looking towards Barcelona.

    2021-04-06
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    Arch Daily. 1st Prize. ECO Resistencia. A proposal for megablocks to transform the capital of Chaco, Argentina

    2021-03-24

    Unanimous 1st Prize
    The 16 megablocks redistribute 70% of the public space occupied by motor vehicles to human use. This action gives us the opportunity to "fill the streets with greenery" and become an "open-air museum city." 

    Arch Daily - Spanish Article



    1st Prize: Macroblocks that will transform Resistencia

    2021-08-09
      ..."the competition pursues new forms of use of public space, the consolidation of the identity of the urban center of the city at its different scales (city, neighborhood, street), the approach to environmental conflicts and the proposal of new criteria for structuring forms of mobility"

    Area Urbana - Spanish Article


    1st Prize: How is the city proposed by the project Eco Resistencia

    2021-04-13
    The winning proposal, among 20 others submitted, was Eco Resistencia, by architects Karla Montauti and Elizabeth Vergara of Buenos Aires.

    La Voz del Chaco Newspaper - Spanish Article


    CONCURSOS: Procesos de diseño por la Arq. Karla Montauti

    2021-04-21
    Arquitectura UADE, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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    Arquimaster. First Prize Project for Public Space and Mobility in the Central Area of ​​the City of Resistencia / Karla Montauti + Elizabeth Vergara

    2021-04-01
    The project was unanimously awarded First Prize in the National Ideas Competition for Public Space and Mobility in the Central Area of ​​the City of Resistencia, sponsored by FADEA.

    Arquimaster - Spanish Article


    ECO-Resistancia: a commitment to sustainable urban renovation

    2021-03-30
    Architects Karla Montauti and Elizabeth Vergara won first prize in the "National Competition of Ideas, Public Space, and Mobility for the Central Area of ​​the City of Resistencia" in Argentina. Their proposal, called ECO-Resistencia: Ecological, Cultural, and Organized, won the competition unanimously among twenty other proposals.

    Ciscsa - Spanish Article



    2nd Prize. Winners of the Our Architects Photography Contest Sponsored by Arch Daily

    2020-11-26
    Revelations Category Award for the Sculptured Pampa Work. 2nd Prize and Honorable Mention.


    Nuestras Arquitectas - Announcement


    The winners of the National Ideas Competition were presented. Resistencia. Redesign of the downtown area.

    2021-03-15
    As part of the urban development planning process for the city of Resistencia, Mayor Gustavo Martínez presented the winners of the "National Ideas Competition: Public Space and Mobility in the Central Area of ​​the City of Resistencia" on Monday. More than 84 participants participated in the competition, and 20 formal proposals were received. The objective of the competition was to produce a redesign plan for the micro and macro-center of the Chaco capital to address the urban mobility deficit and problems within the historic center.

    NOVA Chaco - Spanish Article


    ARQA Winners of the Calendar Drawing Competition, Central Society of Architects

    2019-12-16
    ​ 2 Awards and 1 Honorable Mention.

    The Awards Ceremony and Exhibition for the "SCA 2020 Calendar Drawing Competition" will take place on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at 6:30 p.m., at the Marq – Museum of Architecture and Design, located at 999 Del Libertador Avenue, corner of Callao Avenue, Buenos Aires City.

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    Arch Daily. Post COVID-19: On reinventing our relationship with the “great outdoors”

    2020-06-04
    Post COVID-19: On Reinventing Our Relationship with the "Great Outside" Article written by Juan Vicente Pantin & Drawings by Karla Montauti

    Arch Daily - Spanish Article


    Arch Daily- Winners of the Expo 2023 International Competition. (Spanish Article)

    2019-10-04
    Winners of the International Ideas Competition for the design of the new Public Space, the Main Boulevard, and the Connecting Bridge to be built in Tecnópolis for World Expo 2023.


    Arch Daily - Spanish Article



    Arch Daily. 1st Prize World's Expo 2023. Competition.
    English Article

    2019-09-30
    ​ First prize in an International Competition to create a bridge and a boulevard. 

    Under the theme of “Science, Innovation, Art, and Creativity for Human Development. Creative Industries in Digital Convergence”, Buenos Aires will host the World's Expo 2023.

    Arch Daily - English Article


    Arch Daily- Winners of the Expo 2023 International Competition. (Portuguese Article)

    2019-10-05
    Winners of the International Ideas Competition for the design of the new Public Space, the Main Boulevard, and the Connecting Bridge to be built in Tecnópolis for World Expo 2023.

    Arch Daily - Portuguese Article


    They will build a bridge park over General Paz Highway.

    2019-09-26

    ​ A series of ideas competitions has thus begun to design buildings and adapt existing spaces, as well as develop the exhibition infrastructure, which will later become a legacy to create a bridge and a boulevard. 

    Clarin Newspaper - Spanish Article



    Introducing the winning projects for the six architectural ideas contests for the Expo 2023 site


    2019-10-02

    ​200 projects were presented; comprehending at least 2000 participants from all over the world. 

    BIE Official Announcement - English Article


    Pandora Magazine. 3D-printed Aleph Habitat for Mars

    2019-11-16

    MAGAZINE. Pandora # 1. Resistance and diaspora. Contemporary creation of Venezuelan authors.
    Direction: Ana Maria Marin

    Pandore Magazine - Spanish Article



    XIII National Architecture Biennial, College of Architects of Venezuela.
    Award


    2019-02-18

    More than 30 works were recognized with awards and honorable mentions in different categories. Prize for the category of Projects Executed Outside of Venezuela, Special Projects to "Aleph 2035-NASA Printed Habitat System," by Karla Montauti and Alejandro Garcés

    CAV XIII Biennale - Spanish Article


    Ing White Elevator Dock Ideas Competition
    First Mention in Order of Merit


    2018-12-18

    First Mention: The project authors are: Architect Grassi Rodrigo, Architect Pschepiurca Pablo, Architect Hojman María; Associate Architects Crook, Leandro and Karla Montauti.

    Puerto Bahia Blanca - Spanish Article


    The winners of the elevator dock ideas competition were announced.

    2018-12-18

    The closing minutes of the "National Ideas Competition for the Refurbishment and Enhancement of the Elevator Dock" were signed, which determined the winners and corresponding mentions..

    Puerto Bahia Blanca - Spanish Article


    Winners of the Malaussena Prize

    2016-08-06

    ...”To the “Urban Scar” project by architect Karla Montauti, for “effectively linking the change in the urban fabric between the informal sector and the city.”

    CAV Salon Malaussena - Spanish Article




    Sidetur Ilafa National Contest Winner

    2009-11-13

    A competition that evaluated the role of steel in the structure and in each of its components, as well as the rational and effective use of this material in architectural design.

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    ARQUITETURA & ACO. Aeroportos. National Contest Winner

    2010-03-21

    Aerosombras by Karla Montauti & Yamandu Melendez from Universidad Central de Venezuela. Publication in Brasil - page 30

    See Magazine - Portuguese Article



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