Francisco Cadau: “The Construction Itself Creates Ideas”


Edificio damero / Francisco Cadau Oficina de Arquitectura. Image © Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Edificio damero / Francisco Cadau Oficina de Arquitectura. Image © Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Francisco Cadau received the highest award at the recent Buenos Aires 2022 International Architecture Biennial. A recognition of his genuine trajectory that, from technique and materiality, consistently manages to position his favorite location on the map: The city of Campana on the edge of the Parana River in Argentina. His works in this place, such as House of Sieves or Damero Building, are references when it comes to thinking about project models where “construction and technology constitute the ideas themselves”.

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