Architect and researcher, graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, PhD from the Universidad Abierta Interamericana, full professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University and founder of the Matías Beccar Varela Arquitecto y Asociados (MBVAA) practice, based in Buenos Aires and associated with NODOS Architecture.
As a member of the Center for Advanced Studies at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana (CAEAU/UAI), Matias Beccar Varela has directed for five years a research on sustainability integrated to design methodologies, having received his PhD (2023) at the same institution with a Thesis in which he establishes a South-South dialogue with the Australian Pritzker Glenn Murcutt.
Since 2010 he collaborates as Director of Architecture at CHELA, an interdisciplinary space with a generous platform of industrial heritage oriented to the confluence of art, technology and community in Buenos Aires. He has worked professionally in countries such as France, Ireland or Uruguay, in multicultural teams and with different partners, obtaining awards, publications and exhibitions in different media and spaces.
MBVAA practice ranges from small residential projects to large-scale interventions such as housing complexes or cultural, commercial and educational facilities.
Backed by years of academic and professional research in this field, the firm works with special emphasis on the use of natural energy resources and the possibilities opened up by the environmental singularity of each site. Through the analysis of solar charts and local climatological reports, environmental criteria are incorporated from an early stage to the conception and development of each project.
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Matías Beccar Varela is the author of The reason of the landscape. Conversations with Glenn Murcutt, a bilingual edition with a preface by Kenneth Frampton from the Spanish publisher TC.
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