Bormida, Eliana

Eliana Bórmida is joint owner of Bórmida & Yanzón Studio and an architect, professor and researcher from Argentina with a specialty in wine architecture, culture and landscape. She has developed this theme in numerous winery projects, conferences, publications and advanced study trips, contributing an original, critical architectural vision to a viticulture for the new millennium that seeks to create production locations associated with experiential and cultural tourism and sustainable development. A graduate of the Architecture and Urban Design faculty at the Universidad de Mendoza in 1972, she has also undertaken studies at the Universität Kassel in Germany and at the Università de Roma, La Sapienza. She was Cuyo’s delegate serving on the Comisión Nacional de Museos, Monumentos y Lugares Históricos, and Regional Vice President of ICOMOS, Argentina. She is a Corresponding Professor in the Academia Argentina de la Vid y el Vino and Honorary Member of the Junta de Estudios Históricos de Mendoza.  In 2007, she was awarded a decoration by Italy’s Presidency, the Stella dell’Ordine della Solidarietà Italiana. In 2014 she was invited by the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to be a Walton Critic Guest Professor. That same year, she was Academic Director for the international seminar titled “Paisajes culturales de la viña y el vino. Aportes para su protección y desarrollo sostenible en la Argentina”, as part of UNESCO’s Cátedra Turismo Cultural, held in Buenos Aires.