About — Juan Benavides — Architect & Filmmaker

Graduated in Architecture at the University of Monterrey with experience at the Universidad Mayor in Chile. He worked with PRODUCTORA in Mexico City. Since 2014, he has made films on contemporary architecture with a particular interest in documenting projects that have strong and clear formal proposals, aesthetically rich spatial conditions, and inspiring landscapes. He obtained the Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts and later was awarded the renowned Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship to study the post-master program at The Berlage, from which he graduated cum laude in 2021. He currently runs a multidisciplinary practice in and around architecture while working at The Berlage as a researcher and tutor, where he’s also involved in the organization of lectures, master classes, and exhibitions.

Awards

Third Prize, for Rain Harvest Home, Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Istanbul, 2023
Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship, CEMEX, 2019
Young Creators Grant, National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), 2017

Exhibitions

'International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam', with Heng Yang, Rotterdam, 2022
'Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture', with The Berlage, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2022
'Preludio', BY Galeria de Arquitectura, Mexico City, 2022
'A Quien Corresponda', GSD Kirkland Gallery, 2019
'About Corners, Windows, Handrails, and Sets', Gallery Magazine, 2019
‘Chicago Architecture Biennial’, with Productora, Chicago, 2017
'Columbus Circles for MANIERA', with Productora, Columbus, 2017
‘Creadores en Movimiento’, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosi, 2017
'La narration du quotidien', Forum d’architectures Lausanne, 2016

Lectures

'Many Films and One Vernissage', TU Delft, February, 2024
‘Notes on Filmmaking', Universidad Anáhuac, February, 2024
'Three Disclaimers, Three Fixations, One Random Journey, Three Problems, and One Vernissage', Syracuse University, 2022
'About Order and Other Things', UDEM, Monterrey, 2019
'About Composition by Collaborative Means', Graham Baba, Seattle, 2019
'About Divided Authorship', University of Washington, 2019

Teaching

'Project Global: The Logistics of Marble and Olives', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2023
'Project NL: City Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2023
'Notes on Filmmaking', Research Colloquium, The Berlage, Fall 2023
‘Let’s Have a Picnic!’, Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2023
'Project Global: The Logistics of Milk and Timber', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2023
'Project NL: River Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer, Benjamin Groothuijse, and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2022
'One Hundred Observations from and of the Dutch Landscape', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2022
'Architecture by Auto', Design Master Class with Pavel Bouse and Kees Kaan, The Berlage, Fall 2021
'One Hundred Instructions for Discovering Delft', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2021
'A Journey Round my Room', Design Master Class with Beka & Lemoine and Lucas Bacle, The Berlage, Spring 2021

Photo: Jacob Brillhart