Estudio PLANTA, Joselevich | Rascovsky ARQS. Architecture practice based in Buenos Aires, founded in 2001 by Irene Joselevich and Ana Rascovsky, with Maria Fernanda Torres as project director. It is currently a three-generation studio, combining experience, knowledge, and tradition, with innovation and experimentation.
Irene Joselevich (Buenos Aires, 1942), co-director. Irene Joselevich has more than forty years of experience in the design and execution of architectural works, both in the public and private spheres. She developed projects in Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. She was a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA, 1995/2000), in the area of Cataloging of the Urban and Architectural Heritage of the City of Buenos Aires.
She has published nine books about the architectural heritage of the neighbourhoods of the City of Buenos Aires, as well as an architectural guide to the city.
She has also worked in the public sector, in revitalization plans for various historic neighborhoods of the city, as well as in the academic sphere, as a professor at FADU-UBA, in the Department of Architectural Design.
She has won numerous awards, including the competition, “New Green Areas of Puerto Madero”, of 40 hectares in the centre of the City of Buenos Aires, and the National Architecture Award (1992)
Ana Rascovsky (Buenos Aires, 1972), co-director. Ana Rascovsky is an architect from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA, 1996), and a Master from the Berlage Institute Rotterdam (Holland, 2002) and the Ecole d' Architecture de Versailles (France, 2001). She received the French Embassy/National Endowment for the Arts scholarship and – together with Supersudaca – the main grant from the Prins Claus Fonds.
She has been an adjunct professor at the Dieguez Chair at Fadu/University of Buenos Aires since 2020. She was a full professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University (2014/17), a full professor of Urbanism at the University of Palermo (2006-10), and a visiting professor at various universities and institutions abroad (IUAV Venice, Andrés Bello University, University of Talca, Chile, BuenaVista Institute Curacao). She has exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, in Kuala Lumpur, Cambodia, Peru, and others.
Her works have won awards (SCA-CPAU Biennial Award 2009/10/11, Puro Diseño Award 2009) and have been published on several occasions (2G Dossier, Summa+, Barzón, Volume, Plot), and sold in museum shops (Malba Store). She is a founding member of Supersudaca – a Think Tank on international architecture and urbanism.
Maria Fernanda Torres, Architect, Project Manager. Maria Fernanda Torres graduated in architecture from FADU UBA in 1989. She lived and worked in Colombia for 10 years on various projects. She returned to Argentina in 1999 where she participated in the works of “New Green Areas of Puerto Madero”. She has been part of Planta since 2001.
