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Architect Andy Robert, an ORT architecture graduate, graces the first double cover of “Forbes Uruguay”

September 9, 2026
Architect Andy Robert, a graduate of ORT’s architecture program and co-founder of /slantis, appears alongside Architect Mercedes Carriquiry in the 25th issue of Forbes Uruguay.

The publication features the outlet’s first double cover as “an unprecedented event for Forbes Uruguay” and highlights both architects’ involvement in large-scale projects in the United States.

Uruguayan Women Architects Behind Projects in the United States

Among the examples highlighted by Forbes is JPMorgan’s new global headquarters in New York, a project in which Robert and Carriquiry were involved. The publication also notes their involvement in hundreds of developments across 40 of the 50 U.S. states.

 
 
 
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Forbes describes these projects as developments on “enormous scale” and featuring “a highly technological component”. That relationship between architecture and technology is also part of the history of /slantis as presented by the publication.

Architecture and Technology from /slantis

/slantis was co-founded by Andy Robert and Mercedes Carriquiry; it is a technology company that worked for Google, YouTube, and Apple, among other companies, and links its development to a global vision and the ability to showcase a Uruguayan company to the world.

The School of Architecture had already discussed Robert’s career in August 2025. At that time, a news item about his contributions to publications by El País introduced /slantis as a company that integrates architectural design and technology for the U.S. market.

Andy Robert and His Connection to Arquitectura ORT

Andy Robert is a graduate of the Architecture programUniversidad ORT Uruguay. By 2025, the school had already highlighted her international reach and /slantis’s work at the intersection of architecture and technology.

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In September 2026, Robert shares the spotlight with Carriquiry on the first double cover, which the publication itself describes as “an unprecedented event”.