Carmen Córdova

Carmen Córdova (1929–2011) was an Argentine architect who was part of the (OAM). In 1994 she became the first woman dean of the at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2004, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Biography Carmen Córdova belonged to an ideologically progressive family, the daughter of writer and Carmen de la Serna, sister of Che Guevara's mother. She grew up surrounded by an intellectual and cultural world, which led her to love the arts and study several of them. She dedicated 14 years of her life to dance, studying at the National Conservatory. She wrote prose, painted, and dabbled in acting. While studying painting at Emilio Pettoruti's studio, she met her future OAM colleague, partner, and husband, the architect , with whom she had three daughters. She died in Buenos Aires in 2011.

Career

The (OAM) was founded at the behest of Tomás Maldonado and Alfredo Hlito, and also included Córdova and Baliero, Jorge Bullrich, Juan Manuel Borthagaray, Alicia Cazzaniga, Gerardo Clusellas, , Jorge Grisetti, and Eduardo Polledo. which led them to move there with their three daughters in 1966. They partnered with to complete the work, which was modified in its materiality according to the climate and local technological capabilities. In 2004 the Government of Spain declared it to be a heritage building.