KARLA
MONTAUTI

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

London / Buenos Aires / Caracas
ALL
SELECTED
ARCHITECTURE
URBAN
ART

PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC
ABOUT
    SAND AGORA





    The Sand Agora is an introspective space placed within the infinite flatness of La Pampa. a territory where landscape is no longer background, but protagonist.

    Conceived as a contemporary ruin, the project blurs the boundary between architecture and sculpture. It appears first as a solid habitable object, almost a large sand castle, then slowly begins to crumble. Wind, water and time erode its surface, deforming and de-sculpting it until the object returns to the horizon.

    Made from the Pampa itself, the piece becomes a portal, a threshold and an ephemeral monument: an architecture that does not resist the landscape, but accepts its disappearance within it.

    Winner of two awards at Nuestras Arquitectas International Photography Contest, sponsored by ArchDaily

    La Pampa, Argentina, 2020
    Artwork by Karla Montauti

    Awards
    Second Prize, Revelations Category — Nuestras Arquitectas International Photography Contest, Hispanoamérica, 2020Mention, Revelations Category — Nuestras Arquitectas International Photography Contest, Hispanoamérica, 2020





























     



    © KARLAMONTAUTI
                   


    MMXXVI