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Carmen Rivas Lombardi
Carmen Rivas Lombardi is an architect and urban planner who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Ricardo Palma. She holds a Master’s degree in Urbanism through the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism (EMU), a joint program offered by a consortium of prestigious institutions: the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC Barcelona), IUAV of Venice, KU Leuven, and TU Delft.
She founded her architecture studio, “Rivas Lombardi Arquitectura,” in 2005 and has been a co-founder of the TERRITORIAL studio in Lima since 2012. She began her teaching career at the Universidad Ricardo Palma from 2001 to 2007. She was a professor at the Universidad San Martín de Porres from 2008 to 2011 and at PUCP from 2018 to 2020. She currently teaches at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas since 2009 and at the Universidad de Lima since 2014.
Josep Cargol Noguer
Josep Cargol Noguer is an Architect graduated from ETSAB and Master in Projects, Urbanism, and History from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is currently developing his doctoral thesis titled “Walking… Landscapes, Cities, Architectures.”
He collaborated with Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT in the late 20th century. Founded his own studio in the Mediterranean in the early 21st century and co-founded the TERRITORIAL studio in Lima, on the Pacific, in 2012. Exhibitions include “Architecture Catalane Contemporaine” (2004-2009), Paris 2009, and the Catalonia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2012. Recipient of the Young Architects Award of Catalonia in 2000 and 2004, and finalist for the FAD Awards in 2005.
He was a professor at ESARQ UIC Barcelona from 2000 to 2008 (Director of Projects from 2006 to 2008) and a guest professor at AA Alghero, Italy, from 2005 to 2010. Since 2009, he has been teaching in the Pacific region at PUCP, UPC, and UCAL in Lima, as well as at U Continental in Huancayo, among others.
Practice Ideology
Territorial operates from a multi-scalar vision of architecture, with a global, local, and holistic approach to each project, considering programmatic diversity and revealing the logics of place.
“Espacios al tiempo” activates inhabitation through flexibility and transformability, in dialogue with the contemporary cultural context. Meanwhile, “El peso de la luz” informs the necessary archetype, articulating matter and void, structure and envelope.
The territory is conceived as a dynamic system that links city and landscape, integrating into the development of the architectural project.
Nominated in 2024 for the MCHAP (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize) and winners of first place in the Equipment category of the XX Peruvian Architecture Biennial.
Because in architecture, always is more!
Territorial was founded in 2012 in Lima, Peru, by its partners Carmen Rivas and Josep Cargol.
