Nuria Alvarez Lombardero: Architectural Association Unit

25.9.10

Architectural Association Unit

Politics of Fabrication II
Challenging political expression in Little Havana, Miami

La próxima semana empezamos el nuevo curso académico en la Architectural Association, donde seguiremos trabajandosobre el concepto de Politicas de la Fabricación. Sin embargo, este año exploraremos la area suburbana de Little Havana en Miami, donde las propuestas encontraran su lugar cerca del centro de emigrantes cubanos situado en el Restaurante Versailles. Visita nuestra website para más información.

Next Week we will start the new academic year in the Architectural Association. This year we will be working again with the concept of Politics of Fabrication, but this time we will explore the suburban area of Little Havana in Miami. The proposals will be located close to the Cuban migrant´scenter in Miami, the Versailles Restaurant. Please check the website for more information.

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http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/UNDERGRADUATE/int8.php

Nuria studied Architecture at ETSA Madrid and Urbanism at the Architectural Association AA. She is co-director of the London-Seville-based office Canales & Lombardero since 2003 and has previously worked for Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, Bartlett University College of London, TEC Monterrey, and the University of Seville, at the moment teaching a Diploma design studio at the Architectural Association. She has previously collaborated with Neutra Magazine as an editorial board and writing for the web-magazine La Ciudad Viva. After working as a researcher in Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA, she finished her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning. She has published different articles in international magazines, such as RA, Metalocus and Archithese and the books Politics of Fabrication (ViBok 2017) and Arquitectas: Redefining the Practice (Recolectores Urbanos), being the latter awarded in the XIII Spanish Bienal of Urbanism and Architecture.

ACADEMIC CV

2009-Tutor Unit Master Intermediate-Diploma 8 - Architectural Association
2016-18 Lecturer History and Theory Urban Design, Bartlett, UCL
2009-16 Visiting Lecturer Urban Design and Sustainability , University of Seville
2014 Phd - ETSA Sevilla (Universidad de Sevilla)
2011-13 Director Politics of Fabrication Lab Visiting School
2011-12 Design teaching Fellow in Architecture - Cambridge University
2008-09 Visiting Scholar - Architectural Association
2009 - Visiting Scholar - Cambridge University
2008 - MA in Housing and Urbanism - Architectural Association
2005 Visiting researcher - Harvard University
2003 - Barch + Diploma - ETSA Madrid (Universidad Politécnica)