Sydney launch—Chacarita Moderna

Join us for the launch of the second edition of Chacarita Moderna by French architect Léa Namer, at Bookshop by Uro, Sydney.

Léa will present her book Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires. The book looks at the Sexto Panteón of Buenos Aires, a brutalist necropolis as monumental as it is little known, and its forgotten designer, Itala Fulvia Villa, a fascinating figure of Argentine modernism.

Léa Namer will be introduced by David Neustein, a director of Other Architects, a collaborative practice based in Sydney.

When: 6pm Thursday 14 August 2025
Where: Bookshop by Uro, 3 Blackfriars St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
Tickets: $5 -Ticket price redeemable as a discount from book purchases.

Originally initiated with Elsa Dupont in January 2019, "Chacarita Moderna" is a project centered around the Sixth Pantheon of the Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The study of this unique necropolis is the beginning of a multidisciplinary artistic practice (video, sculpture, installations) and a broader reflection on the relationship of our contemporary societies with death and cemeteries.

About the speaker:

Léa Namer is a French born architect. After several years working in Parisian architecture and landscape architecture studios, she began developing independent research projects focused on architecture and land. In 2011, as part of a university exchange program, she spent a year at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Buenos Aires and presented a thesis on the relationship between the city of Buenos Aires and the Río de la Plata.