MICRO-BIO

• Mexican-American architect, urban designer and urban historian. Published essays on essential spatial qualities and placemaking.

  Mexican-American architect, urban designer and urban historian. Published essays on essential spatial qualities and placemaking. Less

EXPERIENCE

• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Assistant Professor
  • School of Architecture
  • January 2016 to Present

EDUCATION

• Universidad Iberoamericana

  • Ph.D., History
  • August 2011 to September 2016

• UC Berkeley, CED

  • Master in Urban Design
  • August 2004 to May 2006

• Harvard GSD

  • Master in Architecture
  • September 1998 to December 2000

DISCIPLINES

• Environmental Design/Architecture

Interests

• Urban Phenomenology

• Urban Morphology

• Spatial Atomism & Essentialism.

• Placemanking

• Spatial Identity

• Urbanism

Languages

• Spanish

Links

• UIUC Faculty Home Page