Jorge Glusberg

Jorge Glusberg ( born September 23, 1932 † February 2nd 2012 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine journalist, university teacher and creator of culture in art and architecture.

Life

Jorge Glusberg was from 1994 to 2003 director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ( MNBA ) in Buenos Aires and co-director of the International Association of Art Critics (CICA ), headquartered in Paris and co-director of the Art Department at the University of New York and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Spain (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ).

He was one of the initiators of the South American pop-art center, the Centro de Arte y Comunicación ( CAYC ) in Buenos Aires, was a Director since its founding in 1968. The CAYC was considered the center of the avant-garde in the 1970/80er years. He was the founder in 1985 of the International Biennale of Architecture in Buenos Aires in which Latin American architects met on Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Justus Dahinden, Cesar Pelli and Richard Rogers and many others.

Glusberg has numerous books on art and architecture, with a focus on architecture of Latin America published. He took over the management and representation of a wide variety of artists, intellectuals and collectors. He was advisor to the " Latin American Art " (USA), member of the editorial board of " Ars " (Italy ) and correspondent for "Leonardo" (USA) and "ME" (Hungary).

He worked as a professor at New York University in New York and as a speaker worldwide. International attention was the 1984 run International Architecture Symposium " Man and Space " at the Technical University of Vienna, where the next Jorge Glusberg Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, Pierre Vago, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Paolo Soleri, Ernst Gisel, and Ionel bill took part. As a professor, he also worked at the International Academy of Architecture (IAA ).

Honors and Awards

Writings

• Jorge Glusberg: UIA Cairo International Exhibition, Wiley- Academy, 1984, ISBN 0856708526
• Jorge Glusberg: A Decade of Riba Student Competitions, St Martins in 1992, ISBN 0312078943
• Jorge Glusberg: Truth, Radicality and Beyond in Contemporary Architecture (New Architecture), Andreas Papadakis Publishers 2000, ISBN 1901092127