Born in Colombia
Based in New York
Artist Statement
Luisa Brando is dedicated to producing visual art and architecture projects sensitive to heritage conservation and dichotomies between nature and culture, tradition and development. Working on the edge between disciplines and geographies, her site responsive work invokes to reflect upon the memory of a place through the connections across the natural, the material and the inmaterial. Over the last four years her research has been on rivers. A transdisciplinary project that inquires on the idea of rivers as static lines, a political design that has placed rivers as borders and voids across states, instead of regional connectors. Yet, rivers are not division lines, they do not respond to such static administrative boundaries. Rivers are connectors by essence, they are both ephemeral and cyclical, visible and invisible, past and future, culture and nature.
Education
2018
2013
2013
2010
Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Candidate Master in Design Studies on Critical Conservation
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Universidad de los Andes
Profesional Degree in Architecture
Bogotá, Colombia
Universidad de los Andes
Art Minor
Bogotá, Colombia
Universidad de Sao Paulo (FAU)
Architecture Study Abroad
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Honors and Awards
2019
2019
2017
2015
2013
First Price Architecture and Landscape Competition
Kalapa. Comunidad de Aprendizaje
Team: Santiago Pradilla, Laura Vispe, Luisa Brando, Mateo Hernandez and Pedro Felipe Martinez
Bogotá, Colombia
Participant Grant
Center for Art Design and Social Research
Mérida Mexico
Asian Center Summer Research Grant.
Harvard University
Japan
Fulbright Scholarship
Ministry of Culture for the Arts. Colombia
Cum Laude.
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
Relevant Experience
2019
Architecture and MasterPlan Design of Kalapa
Kalapa Learning Community. Bogotá, Colombia
Competition Winners. (Now in the Design Fase). Bogotá, Colombia
Participant of Center for Art, Design and Social Research
Seminar/Workshops. Mérida, Mexico
Planetary Ways of Knowing
Public Art Project Collaborator of Katarina Burin
Collaborator/Project Manager. Boston
We Regret to Inform You
Individual Research. Italy
Water as a Connector Between Nature and Culture
Art and Documentary Project on Magdalena River
Individual Research. Colombia.
Cultural Landscapes and Rivers in Colombia
El Taller de S- Architecture Restoration and Landscape Architecture. Bogotá, Colombia.
Project Manager
Lorenzo Castro Arquitectos- Urban Planning and Urban Design. Bogotá, Colombia.
Junior Architect
Competition Winners In Partnership with OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture NY) for Centro Administrativo CAN.
Cebras Por la Vida. Bogotá, Colombia.
Art Director
Walking Visionaries Award
2018
2015-2016
2013-2015
2013
2013
2018
2019
Exhibitions
2017
2017
2016
2015
2015
Line as Process. Mixed media, Kura Galery. Solo Exhibition. Tokyo- Japan.
Utopian Montages of Magdalena. Collage, Harvard Art Show. Student Group Exhibition. Boston-United States.
Bordes del Magdalena. Collage, Galeria el Museo. Auction, Group Exhibition. Bogotá-Colombia
Travel Journals. Espacio Odeon. Group Exhibition. Seis Cuatro Editores. Bogotá-Colombia
Of Street Games. Feria del Millón. Group Exhibition. Bogotá-Colombia