Cafayate Convention Center by Ignacio Carón, Fabio Estremera, Andres Francesconi, Ezequiel Spinelli

CCFGM is a team made up of Ignacio Carón, Santiago Castorina, Andres Francesconi, Humberto Guel and Marco Macrelli that began in 2005 and is focused on the development of architecture and urban planning projects.

He has received several awards and recognitions, as well as exhibitions and publications, including the First National Architecture Prize of the National Fund for the Arts for the work Parque El Socorro, the CICA Prize for Argentine Architecture awarded at the XVII International Biennial of Architecture of Buenos Aires and the prizes awarded by the Central Society of Architects (SCA) and the Argentine Federation of Architecture Entities (FADEA) for the works of the Multipurpose Hall of the Municipal Spa and the Bus Terminal in Cafayate.

Likewise, the work developed has had the opportunity to represent Argentina in different events such as the IX Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, in 2014, and in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2018, as part of the selection of works that the Chancellery of the Nation sent for exhibition in the Argentine Pavilion.

Estudio DE Arquitectura was founded by Fabio Estremera and Juliana Deschamps in 2000 in the city of La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires. Both graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the National University of La Plata. The office develops a professional practice intertwined with teaching and competition production. This interaction results in the synergy necessary for a reflective and constantly revised practice, leading to a diverse output in terms of themes, scales, and contexts; and collaboration with other studios and professions.

The office positions the project as the preliminary stage that gives way to architecture, thus establishing the concrete and immanent aspects of the program theme, the user, and the site as categories. From there, the design process unfolds, understood as a critically based theoretical reflection, where the final expression concludes when the interaction of space, construction, and form finds its synthesis and visual eloquence. It opens the way to an architecture whose discourse is the potential to be inhabited and reinterpreted by the user over time.

Fabio Estremera was born in Bahía Blanca in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of La Plata (FAU-UNLP). He was awarded the Joaquín V. González Prize for the highest GPA at the UNLP. He is Head of Practical Work in Architecture, Co-holder of the A.E.O. (Academic Design Update Techniques) and A.C.D.O. (Academic Development and Development) in History of Architecture, all at FAU-UNLP. He is a Full Professor of the Urban Project Workshop in the Architecture Program at the National University of Avellaneda. He is a Master's student in Architectural and Urban Project Management at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the National University of La Plata. He has been a member of the Jury and Advisory Board of the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires since 2013 and has been a member of advisory and jury boards in various district, provincial, national, and international competitions. She has participated as a speaker in numerous conferences, debates, and exhibitions.

Juliana Deschamps was born in La Plata in 1975. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of La Plata (FAU-UNLP). She was awarded the Joaquín V. González Prize for the highest GPA at the UNLP. She is a Course Assistant in Architecture and the Chair of Practical Work for Introduction to Materiality at both FAU and UNLP. She is currently pursuing a Specialization in University Teaching at the National University of La Plata. She served on the Jury and Advisory Board of the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires from 2013 to 2016, serving on judging teams in various district and provincial competitions. She has participated as a speaker in numerous conferences, debates, and exhibitions.

Grupo abierto de arquitectura (GAA) was founded by Ezequiel Spinelli, Mirella Villanueva, and Julian Kelis.

Ezequiel Spinelli graduated in architecture from the National University of La Plata in 2007. He teaches at the Bares Casas Schnack vertical architecture studio at the National University of La Plata. He practices independently in the city of La Plata and surrounding areas, completing private commissions for single-family and multi-family housing, as well as competitions. He has received numerous awards and mentions in national and international competitions, and his work has been published in various print and digital media. In the public sector, he works as an inspector of school infrastructure works for the province of Buenos Aires. He currently lives and works in the city of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Mirella Villanueva graduated in architecture from the National University of La Plata in 2011 and teaches at the Posik-Reynoso Architecture Studio at the National University of La Plata. She practices independently in the city of La Plata and surrounding areas, carrying out private commissions for single-family and multi-family housing, as well as competitions. She has won awards and mentions in various international and national competitions. In the public sector, she is a team coordinator in the technical area of ​​the Housing Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Julian Kelis is an architect who graduated from the National University of La Plata in 2021. He has taught as a co-teaching assistant at the Posik-Reynoso Vertical Architecture Workshop at the National University of La Plata and at the Architectural Project Workshop III at the National University of Avellaneda. She practices independently in the city of La Plata and surrounding areas, carrying out private commissions for single-family and multi-family housing, as well as competitions. She has won awards and mentions in various international and national competitions. In the public sector, she works in the technical area of ​​the Housing Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires.