Contar la ciudad a través de pabellones

Antonio Yemail Cortés

doi:10.12795/astragalo.2025.i37.02

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Antonio Yemail Cortés Universidad de los Andes https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8109-8223

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2025.i37.02

Abstract

Proposing culture as a means for social repair and reconstruction has been an interdisciplinary effort. Architecture, scenography, museography, lighting and industrialdesign have converged to imagine, through spatial creation, an alternative future for Bogotá. These Bogotá pavilions at FILBo have offered a profound understanding of Colombian society, addressing essential axes such as its popular and literary culture, memory and reconciliation, and the proposal of a future anchored in what already exists: an unequal social fabric that can be repaired through collective work, and an exuberant nature that invites creation.

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Author Biography

Antonio Yemail Cortés, Universidad de los Andes

Architect and industrial designer from the Universidad Javeriana with a master's degree in Construction from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Winner of distinctions at the Colombian Architecture Biennial, the Ibero-American Design Biennial, the Quito Architecture Biennial, among others, his work seeks to enhance spaces of different scales, taking into account their ecological, material, technological and social diversity. He does this through Yemail Arquitectura, a studio he founded in 2007, bringing together professionals from various disciplines and whose line of experimentation takes into account spatial solutions that prioritise clarity of structure and simplicity of resources. The intellectual and practical openness of this studio has led Yemail to direct projects as diverse as the renovation of heritage housing, the construction of productive housing in rural areas, or the development of installations, galleries and other projects that experiment with the issues of contemporary culture. Precisely because of the above, Yemail has emerged as one of the favourite architects in the proposal of new aesthetics on the Colombian cultural infrastructure, acting as a consultant for institutions such as the District Planning Secretariat and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation and being invited to execute from museum halls such as a hall of the National Centre of Historical Memory in the department of Chocó, to exhibition pavilions, such as the ‘Macondo’ pavilion at the Bogotá Book Fair. Yemail also works as a professor at the Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad de los Andes, spaces from where he seeks to think of architecture as a medium capable of establishing links between different forms of life, human and non-human.