Creator
Laura Azcoaga
Spanish
English
Boxes
Geometric
Modular
Juan Domingo Peron 1578
1037 CABA
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina
About Laura
Laura Azcoaga was born on November 7, 1950 in the province of Córdoba, Republic Argentina. Daughter of medical doctor parents, she graduated from the prestigious National College of Buenos Aires Aires and studied architecture for three years. Her ease with languages led her to learn several of them, specializing in English, dedicating himself to teaching it, the translation of books and academic works.
Simultaneously he dedicated herself to the arts, first to textiles and then to mathematics, combining geometry, planes and perspective.
Since the 90s she was interested in modular origami and constructed geometry, participating in meetings and exhibitions, where she won several awards with his works on paper. In 2007 she became involved with a Yahoo group created by Patricia Apter, which brought together origamists from Argentina, among whom were Meri Affranchino, Noelia Avila and Leandro Polo Madueño. They began to hold monthly face-to-face meetings and brought up the idea of creating an association that would bring them together, to study, exchange and disseminate the activity. This was the seed of what is the Civil Association Plegando al Sur (Origami Argentina) that It currently brings together more than 170 origamists.
Publications
Tireless researcher of what she was passionate about, she wrote her first own edition book in August 2008, “All about sonobe” with the collaboration of Romina Goransky, where systematically addresses the construction possibilities of this module.
In mid-2011, this time with María Eugenia Sandín as co-author, they wrote and designed “Origami - The mill base” which was born as an e-book and a year later was published by Maya Editions in a reduced version at the request of the publisher. This bilingual book addresses great number of models made with the prolific mill base.
Together with Pedro Aparicio, in 2012, they created content for the magazine “Origami, arte y paper” by Ediciones Picuá rojo. Interesting material for teachers and enthusiasts of this discipline. Unfortunately, only number 1 was published and although number 2 was ready, it was not published due to differences with the editors.
Urban interventions
Project manager, her lucid mind was always planning something new and so “urban interventions” emerge: actions in some visible place in the city of Buenos Aires Aires, where origami folded by members and non-members for months, occupy walls, staircases, parks, and in hours they become ephemeral art. To date, there have been twenty-five interventions and the next one will be in tribute to Laura Azcoaga.
Origami and Education Conferences
A teacher at heart, and convinced of the possibilities of origami in the classroom, she worked several years at the Imaginary Museum of the University of General Sarmiento, where she teaches, trains teachers of different levels and the guides of the museum itself.
In 2010, the year of the bicentennial of the May Revolution, she created the project “Origami Celeste and White”, color of the national flag, with which it travels through a large part of the province of Buenos Aires, sharing tools with teachers and directors to implement in Classroom.
From this project, the “Origami and Education Conference” was born in February 2013 led by María Eugenia Sandín and Gregorio Vainberg. Meeting for teachers with workshops oriented to school topics, such as language, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, geometry, visual arts, decoration for school events and recreational moments. These conferences, of great prestige over the years, celebrated twelve emissions, with paper folding as the driving interest in the task.
Paper Festival
Between 2011 and 2013, together with Pedro Aparicio and Vero Icono, they coordinated six Festivals of Paper, at the Taller de la Ribera Cultural Center. They were meetings that occurred twice a year, where the axis was paper, games and origami constructions, to learn and create as a family.
Metropolitan Origami Meeting (EMO)
Knowing the importance of sharing with others and exchanging moments and knowledge, Laura together with Gregorio Vainberg and María Eugenia Sandín, plans the “Metropolitan Meetings of Origami” that are made in odd years, when there is no national convention of the association.
It is a day of many workshops, proposals, talks and folded papers. Four of these events have already been made in different spaces.
Laura Azcoaga was a reference of Origami Argentina (Civil Association Plegando al Sur), member of its board of directors for many years, tireless driver of new ideas, proposals and challenges. Teacher of many, generous with her knowledge, lucid, acidic and fun.
His “modular origami” website was a precursor in the transmission of this art and some of these contents can still be seen on his blog “origami-modular.blogspot.com”. His contribution to the teaching of origami and its use as a tool in the classroom is fundamental and will always accompany us.
Laura passed away on March 11, 2024, but every time we meet to fold, someone will remember her and will be among us again.
Simultaneously he dedicated herself to the arts, first to textiles and then to mathematics, combining geometry, planes and perspective.
Since the 90s she was interested in modular origami and constructed geometry, participating in meetings and exhibitions, where she won several awards with his works on paper. In 2007 she became involved with a Yahoo group created by Patricia Apter, which brought together origamists from Argentina, among whom were Meri Affranchino, Noelia Avila and Leandro Polo Madueño. They began to hold monthly face-to-face meetings and brought up the idea of creating an association that would bring them together, to study, exchange and disseminate the activity. This was the seed of what is the Civil Association Plegando al Sur (Origami Argentina) that It currently brings together more than 170 origamists.
Publications
Tireless researcher of what she was passionate about, she wrote her first own edition book in August 2008, “All about sonobe” with the collaboration of Romina Goransky, where systematically addresses the construction possibilities of this module.
In mid-2011, this time with María Eugenia Sandín as co-author, they wrote and designed “Origami - The mill base” which was born as an e-book and a year later was published by Maya Editions in a reduced version at the request of the publisher. This bilingual book addresses great number of models made with the prolific mill base.
Together with Pedro Aparicio, in 2012, they created content for the magazine “Origami, arte y paper” by Ediciones Picuá rojo. Interesting material for teachers and enthusiasts of this discipline. Unfortunately, only number 1 was published and although number 2 was ready, it was not published due to differences with the editors.
Urban interventions
Project manager, her lucid mind was always planning something new and so “urban interventions” emerge: actions in some visible place in the city of Buenos Aires Aires, where origami folded by members and non-members for months, occupy walls, staircases, parks, and in hours they become ephemeral art. To date, there have been twenty-five interventions and the next one will be in tribute to Laura Azcoaga.
Origami and Education Conferences
A teacher at heart, and convinced of the possibilities of origami in the classroom, she worked several years at the Imaginary Museum of the University of General Sarmiento, where she teaches, trains teachers of different levels and the guides of the museum itself.
In 2010, the year of the bicentennial of the May Revolution, she created the project “Origami Celeste and White”, color of the national flag, with which it travels through a large part of the province of Buenos Aires, sharing tools with teachers and directors to implement in Classroom.
From this project, the “Origami and Education Conference” was born in February 2013 led by María Eugenia Sandín and Gregorio Vainberg. Meeting for teachers with workshops oriented to school topics, such as language, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, geometry, visual arts, decoration for school events and recreational moments. These conferences, of great prestige over the years, celebrated twelve emissions, with paper folding as the driving interest in the task.
Paper Festival
Between 2011 and 2013, together with Pedro Aparicio and Vero Icono, they coordinated six Festivals of Paper, at the Taller de la Ribera Cultural Center. They were meetings that occurred twice a year, where the axis was paper, games and origami constructions, to learn and create as a family.
Metropolitan Origami Meeting (EMO)
Knowing the importance of sharing with others and exchanging moments and knowledge, Laura together with Gregorio Vainberg and María Eugenia Sandín, plans the “Metropolitan Meetings of Origami” that are made in odd years, when there is no national convention of the association.
It is a day of many workshops, proposals, talks and folded papers. Four of these events have already been made in different spaces.
Laura Azcoaga was a reference of Origami Argentina (Civil Association Plegando al Sur), member of its board of directors for many years, tireless driver of new ideas, proposals and challenges. Teacher of many, generous with her knowledge, lucid, acidic and fun.
His “modular origami” website was a precursor in the transmission of this art and some of these contents can still be seen on his blog “origami-modular.blogspot.com”. His contribution to the teaching of origami and its use as a tool in the classroom is fundamental and will always accompany us.
Laura passed away on March 11, 2024, but every time we meet to fold, someone will remember her and will be among us again.
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