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Léa Namer is a french artist and architect, she graduated in 2012 from the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris la Villette. In 2011 she takes part in an exchange year at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo in Buenos Aires and becomes passionate about the Argentinian capital.
Upon her return, she graduates with a project on the relationship between the city of Buenos Aires and the Rio de la Plata. Since her diploma she has worked for several Parisian architecture and landscape studios and in 2016 she is invited to participate in the curation of the exhibition Îles de la Seine for the Pavillon de l’Arsenal.
Initiated with Elsa Dupont in January 2019, Léa Namer currently pursues the project of Chacarita Moderna independently. For the architect, the project initiated a broader research work on other exceptional necropolis.
Nowadays, the Chacarita Moderna project continues to evolve and is seeking new places and collaborations to exhibit in France and abroad.
Chacarita Moderna featured on…
JANUARY 2024
La Nación
Los secretos del panteón subterráneo del cementerio de la Chacarita
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MARCH 2023
Atlas Obscura
The Female Architect Behind Buenos Aires’s Underground Necropolis
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OCTOBER 2021
Metalocus
La huella de le Corbusier en la arquitectura argentina de la segunda mitad del siglo XX
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NOVEMBER 2020
Summa+ n° 181
Chacarita moderna: Ítala Fulvia Villa en la Bienal de Buenos Aires y la Alianza Francesa.
MAY 2020
ARQA Argentina
Léa Namer, la arquitecta francesa que visibilizó a Ítala Fulvia, referente de la arquitectura argentina
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MARCH 2020
Plataforma Arquitectura
Chacarita Moderna: una muestra que explora
la historia y los estilos del Cementerio
de Buenos Aires
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DECEMBER 2019
Radio Nacional
“El Zorro y el Herizzo” : El Cementerio
de la Chacarita, único en su tipo
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MARCH 2020
Moderna Buenos Aires
Panteón Subterráneo del Cementerio
de Chacarita o Sexto Panteón
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Exhibitions & Talks
Lerma (Buenos Aires)
Talk | April 2023
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Disponible (Buenos Aires)
Exhibition | March-June 2023
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FADU (Buenos Aires)
Talk | March 2023
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MARQ. (Buenos Aires)
Exhibition | March-May 2022
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Moderna Buenos Aires - CPAU (online)
Talk | May 2021
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Affspace (Bern)
Exhibition | February-April 2021
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Special thanks and support
Buenos Aires General office for cemeteries (Soledad Rodríguez Iglesias), Patrimonial Office of the Chacarita Cemetery (Maria Elena Tuma), Consejo Profesional de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (Valeria del Puerto), Moderna Buenos Aires (Bárbara Veiga), Sociedad Central de Arquitectos (Carolina Day), Alliance Française de Buenos Aires (Nathalie Lacoste-Yebra y Oriane Tramuset), French Institute in Argentina (Yann Lorvo, Caroline Coll y Lucie Haguenauer), Theater company “La Mujer Mutante” (Juan Coulasso), Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennale, Cuidadores of Sexto Panteón (Leonardo Cañedo, Víctor Castillo, Miguel Osorio), Soecra (Domingo Petrecca, Roberto Nikli), Andres Atela, Nestor Barbitta, Celeste Castiglione, Juan Fontana, Gonzalo Fuzs, Claudia Hilb, Miguel Jurado, Alejandro Katz, LumaDoc (Lucia Rey), Inés Moisset, Fernando Jorge Soto Roland, Inés Zalduendo. And also Ary Carpman, Alix Marie, Claude Namer ( Fama Association), Thomas Namer, La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Tamara Piller.
