2014 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

128 2014 Yearbook Dr. Ing. Juan Carlos Piter (Argentina) Full professor at the Concepción del Uruguay Regional Campus of the National Technological University. Dr. Ing. Carlito Calil (Brazil) Full professor at the São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo. Ing. Mario Wagner Muñoz (Chile) Professor of the course Design and Structural Analysis of Wood Structures in the Master’s Program in Wood Design and Construction at the Faculty of Architecture, Construction, and Design of the University of Bío-Bío. Dr. Francisco Arriaga, Architect (Spain) Full Professor and instructor of Structural Analysis at the Higher Technical School of Forestry Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. They participated in the roundtable discussion “Regulations for Wood Structures,” held as part of the project “Technical Reference Documents for the Standardization of Wood Structures and Buildings,” funded by the Industrial Fund of the National Directorate of Industries of the Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining, and coordinated by the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU), on September 1. Arch. Federico Lerner (Argentina) Coordinator of Thesis and Project Research Workshops for the Master’s Program in Advanced Architectural Design at the University of Buenos Aires. He presented his book Toyo Ito: Imagery and Materialization, November 6. Architect Carolina Briones (Chile) Project Professor at the School of Architecture, Art, and Design at Diego Portales University. Accompanied a delegation of 18 students as part of the joint project “Transitory Squares: Migration and Urban Mobility,” May 21–23. Architect Diego Soler (Spain), General Director of Asset Management at the Institute of Real Estate Analysis. Delivered the lecture “Real Estate Appraisal,” November 21. Architect Stuart Hope (Sweden), landscape architect at the Tengbom architecture firm. He gave a talk on the planning and design experience of Härmälänranta, a new urban center in Finland, as part of the Seminar on Environmental Management in Architecture, July 30. CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2014