Josefina Poroli

Josefina Poroli (b.1982, Argentina) is an architect and artist living and working in Cordoba, Argentina.

Josefina brings a highly developed artistic sensibility to every project she works on. Her work intersects different scales and scope through academic investigations in urbanism and art, extending to building design proper through architecture practice.

Her drawings explore botanical elements to rediscover our natural environment, try to raise awareness about the importance and beauty of it, and hopefully reflect on how we can take better care of it. Each drawing is the result of empirical processes shaped by her architectural background, which inspires her to deconstruct, rescale and modify natural forms to find new landscapes.

She works with traditional materials (colored pencils, acrilics and oils) in combination with new technologies (pen tablets and photoshop).

Since she was little, she has participated in numerous art workshops, among them the Children's and Youth Workshop of the “Dr. Jose Figueroa Alcorta School”(1999-2000) in Córdoba. She graduated as an architect from the Catholic University of Córdoba in 2006.

In 2011, she received a scholarship from the School of Architecture of the "Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science" in New York for a Master in Theory, History and Criticism of Architecture.

Among other awards, Josefina has received honorable mentions for proposals for public buildings and architectural drawings, such as a Mention in the National Drawing Competition for the 2007 Calendar of the Central Society of Architects in Buenos Aires.

In 2012, her drawings were exhibited at the Cooper Union annual exhibition in New York and in 2019 they were published as part of Diana Agrest's book “Architecture of Nature: Nature of Architecture”.