Perhaps now more than ever before, we are all aware of the built environment that surrounds us, and of the impacts it has on the health of individuals, communities, and the planet. The Architecture of Place series brings together the established and emerging voices working to create a better built future.
From December 2024 through February 2025, the 天美传媒, , and will co-host The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a series of interviews featuring six architects and scholars from different backgrounds and points of view: John Smylie, Tiffany Abernathy, and Dr. Patricia Canelas in December, and Minty Sainsbury, Safoura Zahedi, and Sara Bega in February. In the span of each three-part series, every speaker has the opportunity to discuss his/her professional experiences and creative and design practice with the others, fielding questions from the audience at the end of the program.
The programs are free and open for public registration, and recorded versions of the programs will be made available to all.
In this iteration of the series, Safoura Zahedi will interview Sara Bega about her professional work and design background.
Bega is former Town Architect of Las Catalinas, a hilltown on Costa Rica鈥檚 Guanacaste coast. For over a decade she led architectural and urban design efforts, developing strategies for car-free urbanism filled with vernacular architecture. Throughout her tenure, Bega鈥檚 design work focused on fabric buildings, public spaces, and micro-phased neighborhood plans. Las Catalinas received a CNU Charter Award (2022) and Urban Guild Design Excellence Awards (2020).
Bega is also an Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, where she teaches studio classes on contextual design process.