Teresa Gisbert Carbonell belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Teresa Gisbert Carbonell as Bolivian architect, researcher, historian and restorer.
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell was born at La Paz in 1926. Her recorded nationality is Bolivia. She trained at Higher University of San Andrés.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect, art historian and restorer.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, National Culture Award (Bolivia) and Guggenheim Fellowship.
That the work was built in Bolivia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell died in 2018, aged 92. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- National Culture Award (Bolivia)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Trained at Higher University of San Andrés
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