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About
Jhair Vargas
Architect · Installation Designer · Urban Designer · Visual Researcher
A Colombian installation designer, visual researcher, architect, urban designer, and based in Shanghai, working across experience, image, and spatial narrative.
Biography
Jhair Alberto Vargas Hernandez is a Colombian architect whose practice moves between architectural design, urban research, installation, photography, and visual storytelling. His work is shaped by an interest in the relationship between space, memory, and contemporary culture, and by a broader understanding of architecture as both built form and cultural medium.
Across projects developed in Colombia, China, and in international academic and professional contexts, he has worked on public buildings, public space, urban proposals, visual research, and representation. His approach combines spatial precision with narrative sensitivity, often moving between design production, image-making, and research as interconnected ways of understanding the city.
His academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the National University of Colombia and ongoing graduate studies in Design at East China Normal University in Shanghai, with a focus on installation, film, photography, and visual culture. This cross-disciplinary path informs a practice that is both architectural and observational: one that is interested not only in how spaces are designed, but also in how they are seen, inhabited, recorded, and remembered.
Practice Areas
Installation, Architecture & Urban Design.
Experience across installation design, architectural design, institutional projects, public space, urban proposals, and spatial development at different scales.
Visual Practice
A parallel practice in photography, moving image, installation, and representation, with attention to atmosphere, narrative, and everyday urban life.
Research
An interest in architecture as inquiry, combining field observation, drawing, visual documentation, and spatial analysis through academic and independent work.
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