Antonia Lehmann

Antonia Lehmann (born 1955) is a Chilean architect and cofounder of Izquierdo Lehmann architecture firm. She was the first woman to receive Chile's National Architecture Prize in 2004.

Antonia Lehmann
Born
Antonia Lehmann Scasi-Buffa

1955
Santiago, Chile
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Chile
OccupationArchitect
OrganizationIzquierdo Lehmann Architects
Notable workCruz del Sur[1]
Manantiales Building[2]
AwardsChile National Architecture Prize 2004
Websitehttps://www.izquierdolehmann.com/en/

Career

Lehmann graduated as an architect from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1982.[3] Two years later, together with Luis Izquierdo, she founded Izquierdo Lehmann, an architecture firm based in Santiago, Chile.[4]

Her work has been described as taking "a position of equidistance between vernacular tradition and imported modernity."[5]

In 2010, the President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, appointed her as Director of the advisory board for the Chilean New Urban Policy, a position she held until 2014. Since then, she has been a member of the National Committee for Urban Development.[4]

Awards and honors

In 2004, Lehmann won the National Architecture Prize in Chile, becoming the first woman to ever achieve this honor.[4]

That same year, the Manantiales building was the only South American project to be featured in Tall Buildings, an exhibition curated by MoMA in New York showcasing "the newest innovations in skyscrapers".[6]

References
  1. "Cruz del Sur Building / Izquierdo Lehmann". ArchDaily. 3 December 2009.
  2. "Manantiales Building in Las Condes, Santiago". Arquitectura Viva.
  3. "Antonia Lehmann". Izquierdo Lehmann Architects. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  4. "#ArquitectasColegiadas – Homenaje a nuestras colegiadas Premio Nacional de Arquitectura y Premio Nacional de Urbanismo". Colegio de Arquitectos (in Spanish). 7 March 2023.
  5. Flores, Cuca. "Veinticinco años de arquitectura chilena". Arquitectura Viva (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  6. "Tall Buildings". MoMA. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
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