Natalia Anush Karbabian is an Argentine architect, artist, and illustrator of Armenian descent. Born in Buenos Aires in 1982, she develops a practice in which freehand drawing becomes a tool for observation, documentation, and memory. Her architectural training at the University of Buenos Aires permeates her entire body of work, providing a spatial, structural, and sensitive perspective on the city and its transformations.
With more than fifteen years of experience, Karbabian specializes in architectural, landscape, and object illustration, granting buildings a value that goes beyond the formal to position them as carriers of identity, history, and affect. Her method combines ink drawing with digital processes and watercolor, creating precise and evocative images that document the urban environment through a civic gesture.
Since 2022, she has led Ilustro para no olvidar (I Illustrate So as Not to Forget), an artistic and educational project that records heritage architecture in Buenos Aires that has been demolished or is at risk, proposing drawing as an act of resistance and symbolic preservation. Through this work, her practice weaves together art, memory, and civic commitment, generating spaces for collective reflection on heritage, belonging, and ways of inhabiting the city.
Her work has been exhibited in institutional venues such as the Ministry of Education and the CCK / Palacio Libertad, and has received recognitions including the National Soy Arquitecta Award 2023/2024. Currently, Natalia Karbabian continues to develop a committed practice in which illustrating becomes a way of remembering, caring for, and sustaining shared urban memory.
