Jimena Martignoni

Buenos Aires

Jimena Martignoni is an Argentinean architect with degrees in landscape, city and environmental planning.
As a freelance writer and curator she specializes in urban and landscape architecture projects in Latin America. She is the author of: Latinscapes, landscape as raw material, (Gustavo Gili Publishers, Spain, 2008); the monographs Mario Schjetnan: Urban Environment and Landscape (Arquine, Mexico, 2012) and Teresa Moller: Unveiling Landscape (Puro Chile Publishers, Chile, February 2014); Broader Perspectives: Latin American landscapes, (Dalian University, China, April 2014). She has been a regular contributor to Landscape Architecture Magazine (USA), Landscape Design China (China), Topos (Germany), Arquine (Mexico), Landscape Magazine (United Arab Emirates), and has also written for Architectural Record (USA), Green Source Magazine (USA), Green Places (UK) and in Argentina for La Nación newspaper and Barzon Magazine, Plot Magazine and 30-60 Cuadernos de Arquitectura.
She visits every project she covers and works with professional photographers in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, Bogotá, Medellín, Belém, Montevideo and Caracas.
—She has been invited by the SCA and by different universities (UBA, UP, UB, Universidad de La Plata, UNAM en Ciudad de México, Universidad de Cordoba, Universidad Los Andes) to lecture on architecture and is a professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires), for the Graduate Landscape Program.
—She has completed a research and documented new architectural projects and the process of change of the city of Medellin, Colombia, supported by the Government of this city and digitally published in ARQA (March 2013).
—She was invited as a Jury member for the First Latin American Biennale of Landscape Architecture (Mexico City, June 2014), by the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and the SAPM (Sociedad de Arq. Paisajistas de México). She was appointed President of the Jury by the rest of the Jury (from Colombia, France and México).
—In November 2012 her short story “Ciudacas” won the competition called by CPAU, “Stories of Architecture and Cities” (CPAU or Consejo Profesional de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Argentina – “Relatos de Arquitectura y Ciudad”)
—Currently she works for the City Government of Buenos Aires, as a research and publishing consultant in the urban landscape area.