Sebastián Adamo was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He graduated from the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo in the Universidad de Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) and continued his postgraduate studies in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona de la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (ETSAB-UPC). He has taught in different institutions such as FADU-UBA and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and has been inivited to give seminars, workshops and lectures in various schools including the Royal Institute of British Architects (London), the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (Chicago), the École Polytechnique Fédérale (Lausanne), the Fondazione dell´Ordine degli Architetti (Milan), the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (Madrid) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago). He is currently leading alongside Marcelo Faiden and Ricardo Fernandez Rojas the workshop “Taller de Actualización de Técnicas Proyectuales” within the scope of postgraduate studies department of FADU-UBA.
Adamo-Faiden is an architectural studio founded in Buenos Aires in 2005 by Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden. Their work were exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Venice Architecture Biennale, at the LIGA Architecture in Mexico, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires and at the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York. They were awarded the “Gold Medal” at the XII International Architecture Biennial of Buenos Aires and received the “Policies of trade, tradition and innovation” award at the I International Architecture Biennial of Argentina. Currently they have been invited to participate on this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial.