Oscar Cañadas

Mar del Plata / Obra: Featured Architect and Jury 

“Drawing is a desire for intelligence,” said the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Architecture Prize. 

Drawing not only seeks intelligence but is a tool to specify and discover the course of an architectural project, an urban piece or even a city and its landscape. It is a way of seeing and writing down ideas, capturing the essentials of what exists or what we imagine.

Nine aligned notebooks of painted drawings make up a 20-meter narrative sequence, which, like a traveler who goes through time taking graphic notes, synthesizes in buildings significant to the collective memory and the Mar del Plata architectural heritage, an identity and the passage of the 150 years since the founding of our city. Essential captures of a story that continues its saga, in a present where the future is dreamed of with projects like the DAD, which not only enhance but remind us of the importance of this sector for the city of yesterday, today and the future. I celebrate this initiative that pays tribute to the city on its birthday, through art and design with 20 expressions by unique and highly talented artists, decorating the streets of the property in question.