> Camilo García
Camilo García (Cali,
Colombia) is an architect and professor in the Department of Architectural
Projects at ETSAM. Previously, he has been professor of projects at the
European University of Madrid, IE School of Architecture and Master of
Architecture and Energy at UCJC. Camilo holds a Master in Architecture and
Urbanism (M.Arch) from The Berlage Institute, The Netherlands. He studied
architecture at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and at the Mackintosh
School of Architecture in Glasgow. In his professional work he establishes a
permanent dialogue between research and design, practice and teaching.
In 2003 he co-founded Husos arquitecturas with
Diego Barajas. Husos is a studio specializing in architecture, gardening, and
urbanism. Based in Madrid, they frequently work in both Spain and Colombia.
Their work explores different responses to the current climate emergency.
Together with Diego Barajas, Camilo is the author of the book Urbanisms of
Remittances, (Re)productive Houses in Dispersion (Caniche Editorial,
Madrid, 2017). This book was awarded by ArtsLibris Fundació Sabadell in 2019
and is currently part of the permanent art collection of the Fundació Banc
Sabadell in Barcelona.
His projects and texts have been published in a
variety of magazines and books, including Bartlebooth's Better Futures and
Beyond the Human, Harvard Design Magazine, Volume magazine, 2G Dossier,
Abitare, Arquitectura Viva, Domus, Plot, ED, Revista Arquitectos,
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Space Craft, Summa+, Hunch, Avivre, and Project
Russia. He has given lectures at various universities and institutions,
including the Floating University in Berlin, Columbia University in New York,
KTH and Konstfack in Stockholm, UBA in Buenos Aires, the Quito Biennial, Lund
University, Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Bucharest, Escola de Cidade
in Sao Paulo, the University of Cape Town, Recyclart Brussels, Taller Danza in
Montevideo, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, COAM Madrid, Universidad San
Buenaventura in Cali, FUMEC in Belo Horizonte, and the University of
Manchester, among others. Before establishing his own practice, Camilo worked
for the Bogotá City Council and the Public Space Workshop, contributing to the
de-marginalization plan for the city.