| The
Villa Ocampo Project
The Executive Director of the project is
Nicolás Helft, who
works closely with Unesco’s Regional
Office in Montevideo, where he receives
assistance from the Office Director Jorge
Grandi, the Adviser for World Heritage
in Latin America and the Caribbean and Adviser
for Culture in the Mercosur Herman
van Hooff and the Administrative
Officer Anne Carré Quesnel.
We want to thank the members of the Administration
Council of Villa Ocampo who actively
collaborate with the project.
The inventory of Villa Ocampo’s furnishings
was made and given to us by the Asociación
Por Villa Ocampo. Fundación
Sur gave us the historical photographs
that appear in this site.
Unesco’s adviser for the restoration
of the house is Rodolfo Gassó.
Restoration work is supervised by Arq. Eduardo
Carena and the contractor, Ing.
Guillermo Villa. We get help from
the Dirección Nacional de Arquitectura
where we work with the Director Julio
Herrero Anzorena and architects
Javier Pita, Javier
Moya and Guillermo Frontera.
We also wish to thank Fabio Grementieri
for his help.
In matters related to Villa Ocampo´s
security we work with Ricardo Salas,
from United Nation´s security office.
We also wish to thank Domingo Cullen
from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
María Gainza supervised
several cultural projects and wrote most
of the texts of this website. Cynthia
Orfali develops the documentation
center.
Sergio Manela is our graphic
designer, he designed our brand, logo and
website.
Santiago Porter took the
photographs of the restoration process.
Early restoration work on the garden was
supervised by Estudio Thays.
The garden´s restoration project is
authored by Sonia Berjman
and Ana Ricciardi, with
the help of Fabio Grementieri.
Current work is directedsupervised
by Eduardo Ottoviani. Landscape
architects who collaborated at different
times in the project include Esmeralda
Almonacid, Silvina Ruiz
Moreno de Bunge, Dorotea
Schultz and San Isidro’s
Garden Club. We wish to thank especially
San Isidro’s Dirección
de Parques y Paseos, where we received
help from Alberto Trípoli
and Alberto Theler.
The city of San Isidro collaborates actively
with our project. We wish to thank María
del Pilar Roca de Korger, Bernardo
Lozier, director of the Historial
Museum, Pedro Alvarez from
the Office of Tourism, and Guillermo
Sánchez Landa and Rubén
Scandizzo.
Restoration work on the Villa’s furnishings
is supervised by Mariana Astesiano
and Graciela Razé
from the Museum of Decorative Arts, and
by Alejandra Siquier. Astesiano
and Razé also did unvaluable work
on the collection before the this project
started in October 2003.
The commercial valuation of the inventory
was done by Enrique Bullrich,
from Bullrich, Gaona y Wernicke. We also
received help from Mario Gilardoni
and from Juan Carlos Ocampo.
The inventory of the collection of photographs
was performed by Hugo Gez.
Ivonne Bordelois helped
us in several projects and wrote several
texts for this website.
We get continuing support from Prof.
Michel Lafon of the Université
Stendhal de Grenoble, and from Prof.
Peter Johson of Princeton.
We also wish to thank the French
and Spanish embassies in Argentina
for their help in the project.
www.villaocampo.org
Graphic design
Sergio Manela
Programming Ariel Katena
& Mariano Giorgi, Hellseher Studio S.C.
Texts María Gainza,
Ivonne Bordelois
English translations María
Gainza, Katherine Krumme
French translations Juanita
Cifuentes
Photographs - Historical Fundación
Sur, Archivo Villa Ocampo – Unesco,
as specified
Photographs - Contemporary Santiago
Porter
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