Óscar Tenreiro Degwitz recovers a student's hacienda house and launches a seminar

Key facts

• Carolina Solórzano Vásquez designed and built a hacienda house in El Playón, Portuguesa, Venezuela, as her final-year project in 1998 under Óscar Tenreiro Degwitz.
• The house was constructed on a rice plain 400 km from Caracas, near Turén.
• Construction took almost two years; the project took one semester.
• The house was converted into a tourist inn called "Ático del Atardecer" around 2013–2014.
• Tenreiro lost contact with Solórzano and her mother Reina Vásquez after 2014.
• In 2018, Tenreiro tried to contact Solórzano for the book "Todo Llega al Mar" but failed.
• Tenreiro reconnected with former students Manuel Bolívar (São Paulo) and Guillermo García (near Cambridge, UK) via Zoom to review house photos.
• The Zoom session inspired the "Seminario Seis Décadas," a seminar series with critics and architects.
• Seminar participants include Ruth Verde Zein, Jorge Pérez Jaramillo, José María Lozano, Enrique Larrañaga, Antonio Ochoa Piccardo, Augusto Terán, Manuel Bolívar, and Guillermo García.
• The seminar format was proposed by Tenreiro's daughter Victoria.
• The house features a cyclopean stone base, a concrete slab, and a hybrid wood-and-steel structure.
• Tenreiro describes the house as an archetype of tropical architecture with clear roofs, shaded corridors, and mineral colors.