Martín Cobas Sosa

Martín Cobas is the Fall 2025 Robertson Visiting Professor at the UVA School of Architecture. Cobas is a Professor of Architectural History and Design Critic at the School of Architecture of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has taught in Buenos Aires, Quito, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Cambridge, and lectured internationally. 

Cobas received his Ph.D. from the School of Architecture at Princeton University (2021). He also holds a professional degree in architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universidad de la República, and a master’s degree in the history and theory of architecture (with distinction) from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He is a member of Harvard’s GSD and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ South America Project (SAP). 

Cobas is an architect, architectural historian and critic whose work focuses on the histories and theories of modernization in Brazil and the New World. His research explores the liminal spaces between anthropology, architecture and nature, and the visual culture that emerges from them. 

A founding editor of the architectural journal Vitruvia, his writings have also appeared in edited books and in academic journals such as PLOT (Argentina), Ness (US), Architecture & Culture (UK), Revista R and THEMA (Uruguay). The work of his office Fábrica de Paisaje has been awarded several international prizes and has been exhibited in Buenos Aires, Mexico, New York, Barcelona, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and at the International Invitational Exhibition of the Korean Institute of Architects in Seoul.