Eugenia Mantilla de Cardoso. Colombian architect. Designer of the León de Greiff Auditorium, National Prize for Architecture 1974 .
biographical synthesis
He was born in Bogotá , Colombia in 1933 . She is a graduate of the National University of Colombia , Bogotá .
Trajectory
She graduated in June 1956 and had the opportunity to be part of the team that would design many of the current scenarios on the university campus, she would be assigned the task of designing the León de Greiff auditorium that bears her name in honor of the Colombian poet and that It would be directed by José Feliz Patiño who envisioned a world-class auditorium and that was how this important stage would become the heart of the university city.
The León de Greiff auditorium is considered one of the best music venues and with the best sound in Latin America and it is thanks to this that in 1974 it won the national architecture prize awarded by the Colombian Society of Architects, becoming the first woman in Colombia to obtain this award. distinction and in turn in 1996 the auditorium is considered a National Cultural Monument.
After this great triumph in her career, she continued designing together with her husband Alfonso Cardoso, who worked in the city planning office, which would give her knowledge in housing and would allow them to later unite as the same firm.
In addition to his great participation in design, he dedicated his life to teaching, after being awarded by the auditorium, he was appointed honorary professor at the National University where he would fulfill 29 years of great work until his retirement in 1993 .