Hildegard Vásquez

Hildegard VasquezMs. Vásquez has been head of the architecture office Hache Uve, which she created since 1998. Her office has concentrated mostly on preservation and renovation of historic sites such as San Felipe Historic District in Panama and the city of Granada, Nicaragua. Her office has worked in important restoration projects such as Panama's National Theater, Santo Domingo Convent and is currently working on a proposal for a Contemporary Arts Center in the transitional area of San Felipe and Chorrillo, an area which has suffered urban neglect and decay. She is president of Fundación Calicanto, a non for profit organization dedicated to the safeguard the historic and human heritage of Casco Antiguo through social, educational, cultural and conservation programs and actions. Such projects include the re-socialization of local gangs, educational programs for single mothers, dance therapy for young children, multiple cultural events and plans for the restoration of colonial churches.
Her CALI project CAPTA has already trained 120 women to work as hotel housekeeping staff based on self esteem building as a way to assure success in making socially and economically impoverished women become part of formal economy.
She has also been a member or the Panama Canal Museum Board since its creation in 1997 and was part of the Contemporary Arts Museum Board from 2001 till 2005. Ms. Vásquez has a BA and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters in Historic Restoration from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.