Chacarita Alta Social Dwelling by MOS Architects + Adamo-Faiden + Equipo de Arquitectura

MOS Architects is an architecture practice based in New York, founded by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample in 2003. MOS has been honoured with numerous awards, including: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award in Architecture in 2015, a 2014 Holcim Award, an Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League’s 2008 Emerging Voices Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant and the P/A Award from Architect magazine.

Michael Meredith. Co-founder of MOS Architects in New York City. Meredith received a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2000) and a Bachelor in Architecture from Syracuse University (1994). With partner Hilary Sample, they founded MOS Architects in 2003. Meredith teaches at Princeton University, and their academic research occurs in parallel to their job as architects.

Hilary Sample. Co-founder of MOS Architects in New York City. She received a B.Arch. from Syracuse University (1994) and an M.Arch. from Princeton University. She is currently an Associate Professor at Yale University. Before joining Yale, Hilary Sample taught at SUNY Buffalo, where she was awarded the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship, and the University of Toronto. In 2010, Hilary Sample received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a visiting scholar at the CCA in Montreal. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, health, environments, technology, and design.

adamo-faiden. Architecture practice was established in Buenos Aires in 2005 by Sebastián Adamo (1977) and Marcelo Faiden (1977). They are architects from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and PhD from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). They have been working as partners since 2000, and in 2005 they founded Adamo-Faiden, starting their journey from the centre of Buenos Aires. They are professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the University of Palermo (UP).

Their work includes the field of teaching and research and has been internationally recognised by different media and institutions. His works have been exhibited at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the LIGA Architecture Gallery in Mexico, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

Seven monographic publications have compiled adamo-faiden’s work, including a+u 2024:10. “Adamo-Faiden” Selective Memory; Revista 2G Nº91. adamo-faiden: International Architecture (Editorial Walther & Franz König); Inventory (Actar, Barcelona, ​​Spain); “Adamo-Faiden. El constructor contemporáneo. 2007-2018” (TC Prospectiva, Valencia, Spain); “Adamo-Faiden. 2007/2017” (Casa editrice Libria, Melfi, Italy); 2G ​​Magazine Nº65 “Adamo-Faiden” (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, ​​Spain); and Monographic Book “Adamo-Faiden” (ARQ Editions, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile). In 2019, Agustín Fiorito became an associate architect of the firm, inaugurating at the same time the headquarters of adamo-faiden in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Sebastián Adamo is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) and has a master's degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He has been a visiting professor at the School of Architecture of Princeton University, the Polytechnic University of Milan, FADU-UBA and Torcuato Di Tella University. He has also been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions, such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Porto School of Architecture, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the RIBA in London, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid, the University of Talca and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Marcelo Faiden is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) with an honours degree and a master's degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He received his doctorate (ETSAB-UPC) with his thesis "The ground floors of tall buildings". He is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University. He was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Princeton University, FADU-UBA, University of Palermo, and Torcuato Di Tella University. He has been invited to give courses and lectures at numerous institutions such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the School of Architecture of Madrid, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the School of Architecture of Valencia, the Escola da Cidade de Sao Paulo, the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Montevideo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Viviana Pozzoli (Asunción, Paraguay, February 23, 1990) graduated in architecture from the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in 2016. She combines her architectural practice with teaching at the National University of Asunción and the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. She is an active member of the Aqua Alta collective. In 2023, she received the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture, awarded by The Architectural Review.

Roque Fanego (Asunción, Paraguay, July 11, 1984) studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art of the National University of Asunción and has participated in several of the studio's projects.

Equipo de Arquitectura's practice is characterised by an essential approach to architecture, grounded in research into materials, space, light and construction systems. Its projects explore the expressive possibilities of materials such as earth, brick, wood and concrete, paying particular attention to the relationship between construction, climatic conditions and the natural environment.

Among its notable works are Caja de Tierra, the UHP Synagogue, Casa Intermedia, the ASA STEAM educational building and the Early Childhood Centre. The studio was selected to participate in the Latin American Architecture Biennial in Pamplona in 2019 and received the 2019 Frame Award in the Small Office of the Year category for Caja de Tierra. In 2022, Caja de Tierra and Casa Intermedia were selected among the ten outstanding projects of MCHAP.emerge. In 2024, Casa Intermedia received the Brick Award in the Feeling at Home category.