Our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and assistant director Raquel Colacios this summer co-coordinated and participated in this year’s Design, Disaster and Development Research Forum 2 – Learning from Urban Crises:…
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In our latest alumni interview, we catch up with former students Kimberly Pelkofsky (1983) and Shareen Elnaschie (1980), who completed our program in 2013. Two years ago, they started up…
Last week we had the pleasure of having Torange Khonsari of the London-based critical design studio Public Works, as guest professor of a workshop on Participatory Planning and Design, adding…
When we first launched our masters program–Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture–back in 2010, we were virtually the only postgraduate degree with a specific and joint focus on the…
Last April we ended our series of Development by Design Dialogues with special guest Teddy Cruz, architect known for his extensive research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. In the dialogue,…
Next Thursday March 5th, our Development by Design: Dialogues in Architecture, Equity and Development continue with special guest Dan Lewis, disaster and post-conflict expert of UN-Habitat. Organized in collaboration with…
Next Thursday January 22nd, we will kick off our Development by Design: Dialogues in Architecture, Equity and Development with special guest Nathaniel Corum of Architecture for Humanity. Organized in collaboration…
We’re excited to announce the launch of an event series titled Development by Design: Dialogues in Architecture, Equity and Development, conceived by our master program to highlight the role of…
Students often discover through our program how important it is to communicate with people on the ground–the beneficiaries of any given project. Our workshops with Ciutat Meridiana in Barcelona and…
The Missing Links: Establishing Evidence-based Design in Maternity Health Care by Victoria Swan | Supervisor: Raquel Colacios This thesis is intended as an articulation of distinctions between personal relationships in…