Luz Amorocho
{{Short description|Colombian architect (1922–2019)}}
{{family name hatnote|Amorocho|Carreño|lang=Spanish}}
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| birth_name = María Luz Amorocho Carreño
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|04|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bogotá, Colombia
| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|09|29|1922|04|23|df=y}}
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| nationality = Colombian
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| occupation = architect
| years_active = 1946–1988
| known_for = first woman architect in Colombia
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Luz Amorocho Carreño (23 April 1922 – 29 September 2019) was the first Colombian woman to graduate as an architect. She presented one of the first urban plans for Bogotá and worked on both public and private buildings in Bogotá throughout her career. Between 1966 and 1988, she served as the Director of the Planning Department of the National University of Colombia and spent a decade documenting the history of the buildings on the campus of the university.
Early life
María Luz Amorocho Carreño was born in 1922 in Bogotá, Colombia to Ana Lucía Carreño Phillips and Marco Amorocho Tulio.{{sfn|González de Cala|2011|p=7}} Her parents were from Socorro, Santander but had moved to Bogotá for better opportunities. They were poor, but the family had many books and the children were encouraged to study. Amorocho entered college in 1940 and graduated in 1945,{{sfn|Sencial|1998|p=132}} from the School of Architecture at the National University of Colombia as the first woman architect of Colombia.{{sfn|Pinzón|2011}}
Career
In the year that Amorocho graduated, the Ministry of Education founded the Cundinamarca High School of Female Culture ({{langx|es|Colegio Mayor de Cultura Femenina de Cundinamarca}}) under the direction of Ana Restrepo del Corral. Amorocho was named one of the directors of the school and taught draftsmanship and architecture.{{sfn|Sencial|1998|p=133}} In 1946, she published an article, Bogotá puede ser una ciudad moderna, (Bogotá can be a modern city) with other Colombian architects, Enrique García, José J. Angulo, and Carlos Martínez, director of the magazine PROA Arquitectura, which caused a sensation. In the article, as Amorocho advocated for Bogotá to modernize based on an urban plan and suggested designs to modify the city.{{sfn|El Tiempo|November 2009}}{{sfn|Rodríguez Guerrero|Mondragón López|2005|p=36}} The illustrated article showed how the plazas could be redesigned to provide hygienic apartment housing with green spaces and wide streets and included a management plan for obtaining financing for the construction.{{sfn|Rodríguez Guerrero|Mondragón López|2005|p=36}}
After La Violencia began in 1948, Luz began working for the Ministry of Public Works in Tumaco reconstructing buildings destroyed in the rioting. For two years, she built schools and office buildings and then went to work at the firm of Cuéllar Serrano and Gómez for a decade.{{sfn|Sencial|1998|p=133}} The firm, which included partners Gabriel Serrano Camargo, Camilo Cuellar Tamayo and José Gómez Pinzón, was known for designing some of the most important buildings in Bogotá, including many hospitals, the Jockey Club, and several businesses.{{sfn|El Tiempo|October 2009}} While she was with them, Amorocho worked on designs and construction for the Hotel Tequendama.{{sfn|Sencial|1998|p=133}}
In the 1960s, Amorocho moved to Paris to study and worked with the architect Nicole Sonolet. When she returned from Paris, in 1966, Amorocho began working as the head of the Division of Physics and Planning at the National University. She coordinated a cross-cultural relationship between her friends in France and co-workers in Colombia.{{sfn|Sencial|1998|p=134}}{{sfn|El Tiempo|November 2009}} She developed construction projects for public spaces, including buildings, gardens, open spaces, parks, and roads. In the 1970s, Amorocho began a project that took her more than a decade to complete, documenting the design, construction and all details of the history of each building on the campus of the National University.{{sfn|El Tiempo|November 2009}}
Death
Amorocho died on 29 September 2019 and was buried at the Chapinero Cemetery.{{sfn|Gaviria Funeraria|2019}}{{sfn|Millan|2019}}
References
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- {{cite web|last1=González de Cala |first1=Marina |title=Apellido Phillips |url=http://academiadegenealogia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Apellido-Phillips-Marina-de-Cala.pdf |website=Academia de Genealogia |publisher=Academia Colombiana de Genealogía |access-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828010150/http://academiadegenealogia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Apellido-Phillips-Marina-de-Cala.pdf |archive-date=28 August 2016 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |date=November 2011 |trans-title=Phillips Surname |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |last1=Millan |first1=William |title=Luz Amorocho Carreño |url=https://proaarquitectura.co/luz-amorocho-carreno/ |website=PROA Arquitectura |publisher=Revista PROA Arquitectura |access-date=1 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001165626/https://proaarquitectura.co/luz-amorocho-carreno/ |archive-date=1 October 2019 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |date=30 September 2019}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Pinzón |first1=Ana María |title=¿Iguales o diferentes?: Breve balance de la situación de las mujeres en arquitectura |journal=A57 |date=28 March 2011 |url=http://www.a57.org/articulos/cronica/Mujeres-en-Arquitectura |access-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908205150/http://www.a57.org/articulos/cronica/Mujeres-en-Arquitectura |archive-date=8 September 2016 |publisher=Cultura de la Arquitectura y el Diseño en Colombia (Architecture and Design Culture in Colombia) |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |trans-title=Same or different?: Brief assessment of the situation of women in architecture |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite book|last1=Rodríguez Guerrero|first1=Gabriel Felipe|last2=Mondragón López|first2=Hugo|title=El proyecto moderno en Bogotá|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugE6f5TIOwMC&pg=PA36|year=2005|publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Faculty de Artes, Programa de Maestría Historia y Teoría del Arte y la Arquitectura|location=Bogotá, Colombia|language=es|isbn=978-958-97649-0-9}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Sencial |first1=Circe Urania |title=Crónicas y entrevistas: Luz Amorocho: pionera de las arquitectas colombianas |journal=En Otras Palabras |date=June 1998 |volume=Mujeres y espacios urbanos |issue=5 |pages=132–134 |url=http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/47836/1/luzamorocho.pdf |access-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007161217/http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/47836/ |archive-date=7 October 2016 |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |trans-title=Features and interviews: Luz Amorocho: pioneer Colombian architect |issn=0122-9613 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Gaviria Funeraria|2019}} |title=Anuncios de fallecimiento: Luz Amorocho Carreño Abr-23/1922-Sep-29/2019 |url=https://gaviriafuneraria.com/anuncios-fallecimiento |website=Gaviria Funeraria |publisher=Grupo Gaviria |access-date=1 October 2019 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |date=30 September 2019 |quote=Destino Final: Cremacion: Cementerio de Chapinero}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|El Tiempo|November 2009}} |title=Luz Amorocho, la primera mujer arquitecta del país—Pensadores de la ciudad |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-6579787 |access-date=7 October 2016 |newspaper=El Tiempo |date=13 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007181327/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-6579787 |archive-date=7 October 2016 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |trans-title=Luz Amorocho, the first woman architect country—City thinkers |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|El Tiempo|October 2009}} |title=Serrano, el arquitecto detrás de los megahospitales de Bogotá |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-6484008 |access-date=7 October 2016 |newspaper=El Tiempo |date=30 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007184504/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-6484008 |archive-date=7 October 2016 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=es |trans-title=Serrano, the architect behind the megahospitales of Bogotá |url-status=dead }}
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External links
- [http://unperiodico.unal.edu.co/pages/detail/la-historia-de-la-primera-arquitecta-del-pais/ UN Television's presentation on the life of Amorocho]
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Category:Colombian women writers
Category:20th-century Colombian women writers