Marina Villelabeitia

Architect by the University of Buenos Aires and cultural manager. Master en Ciudades: El Urbanismo Próximo, IAAC 2022/23. Thesis: Beyond Petroleum, published in QRU magazine no. 14: Periferias, 2024. She directs the Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Strategic Planning 3SLAB and the International Meetings PATAGONIAOTRA, culture and landscape in Patagonia, itinerant research platform and program of art, design and strategic planning finalist of the Rosa Barba Award of the European Biennial of Landscape 2014. She is director of Atando Cabos Patagonia, a platform for collaborative “inter(media)acción” with local communities in Patagonia, committed to the sustainability of their resources and regional economies, mainly rural. She has been academic curator in the Technical, Crafts and Industry section of the three editions of the BIAAR International Architecture Biennial in Argentina, and local advisor for the Golfo San Jorge Territorios Inteligentes program of Fundación Metrópoli (Madrid) and Fundación Fines (Buenos Aires).

As Undersecretary of Urban Planning, Private Works and Surveying in the Municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia 2019-2023, she has implemented the CR LAB Laboratory of Citizen Initiatives and the Urban Environmental Master Plan of the city. In the field of teaching, she is a researcher and professor of Cultural Management and Mediation, UNPSJB. She has taught Architecture III, IV and V at FADU/UBA; senior researcher at Equipo Buenos Aires 2000 (FADU/UBA, School of Architecture, University of Palermo, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University) and LAMUR, Laboratory of Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism, University of Palermo, both directed by Arch. Alberto Varas; editor of the books “Buenos AiresMetropolis”, “Buenos Aires Natural+Artificial”, “Buenos Aires, a metropolitan trilogy” (FADU/UBA – Faculty of Architecture, University of Palermo – Graduate School of Design, Harvard University) directed by Alberto Varas and edited by CP67. Among other awards and distinctions, his work of restoration and recycling of the COMFERPET Social and Sports Club, in Comodoro Rivadavia, has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, as part of the exhibition Horizontal Vertigo curated by Cancillería Argentina.