“Globalization and Identity in Architecture: the case of Mexico” - Marco Mazari, Director of the College of Architecture of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Abstract: During the last decades of the 20th century Mexico´s and Latin America´s urbanization processes have required a change of paradigms in the way we look at our cities and therefore our architecture. Economic, social and climatic changes define development in our cities, calling for a new architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture to professional knowledge and skills in order to be able to stand up the demands. New technology has allowed for a new tendency towards sustainability through high-tech elements as well as passive technologies for different scales and sites. 21st Century architecture is searching for identity within its global development. We can´t lose cultural identity from our sight. These identities define areas that transcend borders. International architecture competitions give the opportunity to young architects and architecture students to stand front to front with more established firms. Allowing more architects to be recognized worldwide. The University of Arizona's lecture is co-sponsored by: - College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture - Global Initiatives - UNAM's College of Architecture - UNAM’s Coordination of Humanities - UNAM Center for Mexican Studies (at the Univ. of Arizona in Tucson) Rodrigo Mazarin was a member of the winning project for the 2016 Young Architects Program of MoMA, Weaving the Courtyard. Marco Mazari-Hiriart, Director of the College of Architecture of UNAM Mazari-Hiriart has an Architecture bachelor from UNAM’s Architecture College, from which he graduated with honors, and master's degree in architecture and restoration. He completed a specialization in planning and environmental design at the University of Aston in Birmingham, England. He is a UNAM’s Professor with 30 years of teaching work, founder of Landscape Architecture degree and served as director and advisor to several theses. In the College of Architecture he has held various academic and administrative positions, as head of the Division of Continuing Education and Academic Exchange coordinator, a member of the Commission for Student Mobility Program and coordinator of the Academic Unit of Landscape Architecture. He participated as leader of several projects for the Outreach and Special Projects Coordination of the Architecture College: Master Plan for Integral Management and Sustainable Use of the Rio Magdalena Basin at Mexico City; Diagnosis of the Master Plan of the “Predio Irrigation District”; Master Plans of UNAM’s Campus Juriquilla and UNAM’s Archery Field. He coordinated the exhibition of Architecture student work in a Selection of Schools of Architecture of Mexico in Tongji University, Shanghai, in 2006, and was an advisor to the international summer workshop conducted by the School of Architecture and the University of Texas at San Antonio, United States, in 1998. Arch. Mazari-Hiriart is a member of the National Academy of Architecture. He earned a place of honor in the First Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Mexico, organized by the Society of Landscape Architects of Mexico and the International Federation of Landscape Architects, with the Magdalena River Rescue Project. Also, he received the Award Doctor Gustavo Baz Prada for Social Services, as an advisor to the Magdalena River Rescue Program, and Service Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in the International Encounters Conference in 2005.

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