Carlos Brillembourg, AIA, is a registered architect and principal of Carlos BrillembourgArchitects. He received his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University in 1975. Afterworking for Mitchell/Giurgola in New York (1977) and W.J. Alcock in Caracas (1975-76) heestablished his own practice in Caracas in 1980. Subsequently in 1984 he founded CarlosBrillembourg Architects in New York. His built work includes a theatre, a sports center, officebuildings, apartment buildings, a 250- room hotel, numerous single-family residences, andart galleries including the Lladro Museum & Gallery (1988) located at 43 West 57th Street inNew York City.Parallel to his practice he has taught architecture at the Simon Bolivar University in Caracasand at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York (1984-85). He was afounding member of the Instituto de Arquitectura Urbana (IAU) in Caracas (1977). As thedirector of this urban laboratory, he led a team of twenty architects that produced urbandesign solutions for the city of Caracas and other cities such as Ciudad Guyana. He hasorganized conferences at the New School University on the subjects of “Globalization and Architecture”and “Nature and Architecture”. He recently organized with Terence Riley for MoMAand the Vera List Center of New School University an all day seminar entitled: “Latin AmericanArchitecture 1929-1960: Contemporary Reflections”. He has been the contributing editor forArchitecture for Bomb magazine since 1992.His firm has received awards such as: “40 under 40” from Phillip Johnson in Interiors Magazine(September, 1986), Architectural Record House Award (Mid-April, 1984), The VIII Bienal Nacionalde Arquitectura Award (Venezuela, 1987) for a single-family residence (Palmasola). Hisproposal for a New World Center was exhibited first at the Max Protetch gallery in February,2002, then in the American pavilion of the Architecture Bienniale in Venice in 2002, amongmany other locations worldwide and is now part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonianin Washington, D.C.His work has been widely published in the New York Times,New York Times Magazine, ArchitecturalRecord, House and Garden, Casa Vogue, Gran Harper’s Bazaar, Interiors, ContractDesign, The East Hampton Star, the Daily News, The New York Post. His work is also featured inthe folowing books: Paul Goldberger’s Houses of the Hamptons (1986), Max Protetch’s A NewWorld Trade Center(2002),Matteo Agnoletto’s GROUNDZERO.EXE, and Michael Webb’s BeachHouses (2002) .He edited “Latin American Architecture, 1929-1960: Contemporary Reflexions”, MonacelliPress, 2004 and was published recently in Archivos De Arquitectura Antillana (AAA) in issue#34, “Caribbean Modernist Architecture”, UTech Jamaica-MoMA, September of 2009.He has lectured on Architecture in New York City, Boston, Caracas, and Kingston, Jamaica,most recently at The America’s Society, at the AIA conference on Poetry and Architecture, andat a Cooper Union graduate seminar with Diana Agrest. He was recently a member of the juryfor the design competition: “Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100” organized bythe Bronx Museum and the Design Trust in July, 2009