Federico Garcia Lammers

Biography

FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS, ASSOC. AIA, moved to the United States from Montevideo, Uruguay in 2001. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota, School of Architecture, where he received the Henry Adams AIA Certificate and the Richard Morrill Memorial Thesis Award for Design Excellence. Since 2005, he has practiced as an intern architect and designer in Minneapolis, New York, and Portugal; working with interdisciplinary teams on the design and development of large-scale projects on three continents. Federico is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at South Dakota State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios, collaborative workflows, and coordinates Cities on the Water, a student travel study based in Montevideo, Uruguay. His research and scholarship focus on the sociopolitical and technological effects of historic architectural workflows. The primary subject of this scholarship is the reinforced masonry work of the late Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste (1917-2000).

Research Interest

Political Context: Architecture and the Polis, Labor Context: Workflows and Authorship, Representational Context: Digital Processes and Complex Geometries.