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  • FOLK POLITICS AT THE 15TH VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

    Folk Politics at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale is a written review and commentary on the latest Italian event directed by Alejandro Aravena, published in The Avery Review, “an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.” Author, 2016.

  • IDEAS CITY ATHENS

    IDEAS CITY ATHENS

    IDEAS CITY Athens was a week-long residency program organized by New York’s New Museum in collaboration with Neon Foundation. “The five-day residency will bring together emerging practitioners working at the intersection of community activism, art, design, architecture, and technology in cities around the world. IdeasCity Fellows will live and work in the Athens Conservatory and will transform the space into […]

  • UNDISCIPLINED CMU: A DESIGN-BUILD MASONRY STUDIO

    UNDISCIPLINED CMU: A DESIGN-BUILD MASONRY STUDIO

    UNDISCIPLINED CMU: A DESIGN-BUILD MASONRY STUDIO is the book that document the project of the same name. The book was done during the Summer of 2015 in collaboration with Pier Paolo Pala, Chau Tran and Yuliya Veligurskaya, students who took part on the Spring semester making the project. The book is available for purchase here and to […]

  • SPATIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

    SPATIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

    Spatial Construction: Occupying a Grid is an exercise for the Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture studio for non-majors at Barnard and Columbia. It is focused on the better understanding of space within a set of given parameters. First, it will work around a virtual cubic structure (12″x12″)that will contain a formal grid. This will define one […]

  • ASCENDING, DURATION, ROOMS

    ASCENDING, DURATION, ROOMS

    Ascending, Duration and Rooms (13:54 each) are the three short films based on the un-construction of the House Opera in Detroit. Each film disassemble and reconstruct the footage of one-week of work into three themes: sound, time and space respectively. Exhibited at the BEB Gallery in the Rhode Island School of Design as part of the […]

  • THE DAY AFTER THE CARNIVAL

    THE DAY AFTER THE CARNIVAL

    The Day After the Carnival: The Hangover of Work (in Late Capitalism) was a graduate studio taught at Penn Design in the University of Pennsylvania, inquiring the intersection of work-production as a mode of carnivalesque action in the form of hangover. Students researched and draw existing program-buildings near Northern Liberties, analyzed their local-global logics, composed programmatic […]

  • 3595 BROADWAY

    3595 BROADWAY

    3595 Broadway is a critique/article to a mixed-use building by Columbia University’s uptown expansion in New York City, published in The Architect’s Newspaper here. Author, 2015.

  • SYSTEMS AND TECTONICS

    SYSTEMS AND TECTONICS

    The core 2nd year studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology aim to discuss and develop design strategies for the concepts of tectonics and buildings’ systems. The studio was given with an emphasis in experimenting with the tools of geometric and ordering systems and their networked capacity.  Studio Instructor, 2014.      

  • ARCHITECTURE OF INDUSTRIOUSNESS

    Architecture of Industriousness is a short text part of House Housing: An Untimely History ofArchitecture and Real Estate in Nineteen Episodes, exhibition’s pamphlet, made for the traveling exhibition Venice’s Casa Muraro during the summer of 2014, and off-Venice Biennale site. Also available on the web at http://www.house-housing.com.  Research and Production Coordinator for the Venice part […]

  • PROMISCUOUS ENCOUNTERS: ADRESSING/ASSESING ADHOCRACY

    PROMISCUOUS ENCOUNTERS: ADRESSING/ASSESING ADHOCRACY

    Promiscuous Encounters: Addressing/Assessing Adhocracy, a day-long event held at the Galata Greek School after an invitation form the curatorial team for the first Istanbul Design Biennial in November 2012, examined the exhibition ADHOCRACY curated by Joseph Grima through the lens of: invisibility, design, value and commons. Participants: Ethel Baraona Pohl, Ute Meta Bauer, Francisco Díaz, […]

  • CIUDADLAB: BRAZIL, THE FORM OF DESIRE

    CIUDADLAB: BRAZIL, THE FORM OF DESIRE

    After researching the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and São Paulo in Brazil we identified leisure, void, security, industry, body, tourism and monumentality as drivers of the forms of desire. With and ever expanding economy, Brazil has become the world’s eighth economy and the destination for countless local and international events. The research was […]

  • PLACE AND CONTEXT STUDIO

    PLACE AND CONTEXT STUDIO

    For the initial part of the course, first year undergraduate students where confronted to notions of place and context. An analytical city study was developed through the layering of cartographic drawings including a vast variety of the city’s visible and invisible infrastructure. Mixed media, hand drawn. Studio Instructor, 2007.