Projects
Ecotopias
Bienal de Venecia 2016
Het Niuwe Instituut
Cubiertas temporales
Teatro de la memoria - Berlín
Concéntrico
Sobremesa
Orchid Pavilion
Pabellón ucab
Pabellón Patio
Ephemeral Habitat Studio
Espacios instantáneos
Equipamiento transversal
Vivienda rural
Bosque contenido
Recinto difuso
Bosque del futuro
Zascize House
Pabellón Audi
Biennale svizzera 2024
Paisajes imposibles
último paraíso
Artefacto
Lago habitado
Wawapukllay
Mirador 70
Biblioteca de Los Ríos
Ciudad (in)sostenible
Estela monumental
Mar del tiempo
Jardín en El Paraíso
Diario de un paisaje doméstico
The world from another planet
De vuelta al calamari
400,000 Góndolas
Masa leve
Archipiélago House
Recinto elemental
Ensayo de un lugar imposible
Citizen Parliament
Rascacielos rural
300+
Die Dumbwaiter
Mi casa es tu plaza
Edificio 004
Brick Wall
Pabellón apilado
Parque vivienda
Centro comunitario
Paisaje llano
Parasite
Xinguang Lab - Shenzen
Casa patio
Cubierta terremoto
Curatorial platform
The architectural curatorial project IAC is a platform for the promotion, provocation, and dissemination of architecture, with a primary focus on Latin America—formerly DistopíaLab. Through a range of public formats, it establishes relationships between diverse practices across the continent and fosters a plural dialogue through both theoretical and project-based tools. By enabling spaces for exchange and exhibition, it stimulates discussions on architecture, the arts, culture, communication, politics, and society, while constructing a tangible continental network. From 2009 to 2017, the International Architecture Festival IAC was held annually in Maracaibo, Venezuela—and in 2015 in Medellín, Colombia—bringing together over 150 architects and creators working across curatorial practice, the arts, design, and culture, from countries including the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, among others, with a total attendance of more than 6,000 participants.
Programs developed through the IAC curatorial project range from the International Architecture Festival and Diario— presented at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale 2019 — to exhibitions, interventions, and public platforms such as Actions on a Closed Pavilion (Maracaibo–Venice), Panorama, The Public Night, Parasite, SUB40—Emerging Architecture in Venezuela, Interval, and Works and Projects in Ibero-America, as well as Sala Base and La Sala, among others.
↱ Participants (2009–2017):
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Urban Think Tank, Adamo & Faiden, Supersudaca, Camilo Restrepo, Derek Dellekamp, Gualano + Gualano, Franco Micucci, Paisajes Emergentes, Al Borde, Antonio Yemail, Ecosistema Urbano, Triptyque, Ariadna Cantis, Alejandro Haiek, Lourdes Peñaranda, Roberto Puchetti, ODA, NMD Nómadas, Andrés Jaque, West 8, PLAN B, Francisco Pardo, Elisa Silva, Cadaval & Solà-Morales, Cristina Goberna, Urtzi Grau, Zuloark, Manuel Villa, Solano Benítez, PRODUCTORA, Álvaro Puntoni, Eva Franch, Henry Vicente, CTRL-G, PKMN, Willy Müller, Tomás Díez, Beatrice Galilee, Mauricio Rocha, Gabriela Carrillo, Carla Juaçaba, Henry Rueda, Langarita-Navarro, Handel Guayasamín, Miguel Braceli, Ignacio Cardona, Glocal Studio, AGA Estudio, PRO-A, Daniel Belandria, Assemble, Grupo Talca, Jorge Pérez Jaramillo, Luis Callejas, OPUS, Daniel Feldman, Estudio Altiplano, CAMPO, Iván Darío Quiñones, Latitud, LANZA Atelier, SIAA, RAMA Estudio, Entrenos Atelier, Adjkm, Taller 25, Central Arquitectura, Incursiones, maan, Colectivo Caso, MAT, Juan Pablo Astudillo, Daniela Atencio, Proyecto Colectivo, NONES Arquitectura, Luis Ángel González, Víctor Sánchez Taffur, Carla Urbina, José Naza, PICO Colectivo, among others.
Teaching
Operating across the intersections of architecture, curatorial practice, exhibition and ephemeral design, communication, and cultural management, our work engages in writing, drawing, inventing, and constructing stories and spaces. Within this framework, academia plays a fundamental role in the processes we undertake.
Through experimentation, research, and academic exercises, we challenge the traditional boundaries of professional practice, provoking new conversations and debates that engage with politics, space, culture, and society, in an ongoing attempt to shape the discipline of architecture.
Maximillian Nowotka has participated as a lecturer, professor, and juror at various institutions and universities across Europe and Latin America.
Selected teaching work
Spacial representation
Mexico City
Tec de Monterrey
2026
Mexico City
Tec de Monterrey
2025
Mexico City
CENTRO
2025
Time Space Existence
Venice, Italy
European Cultural Center
2025
Possible futures
Lima, Perú
Lima Architecture Biennale
2021
Coporaque, Perú
Latinamerican Social Workshop
2013
Santiago, Chile
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2010
LUZ-URU
Maracaibo, Venezuela
2009