Architecture

JAIME GÓMEZ

Ph.D. Student - Architecture

Research Interests/Specializations
  • Ordinary buildings and landscapes.
  • History of housing.
  • Domesticity.
  • Cultural landscape studies.
  • Vernacular architecture.
  • Housing design.

 

Dissertation: Learning through Domestic Settings: Institutional Domesticity and the Making of Model Citizens (working title): My dissertation explores how two institutions (boarding schools) used domestic settings and practices to influence children’s behavior with the aim of making model citizens. I use methods from cultural landscape studies to understand how the values promoted by these schools were coded in the institutions’ spatial configurations, and how children learned these values. I read the spatial settings of the institutions studied as domestic space.

Degrees
M.Arch.II, McGill University, Canada.
Professional degree in Architecture, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.
Courses Taught

Spring 2016: An Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism - Arch 170B (Graduate Student Instructor for Margaret Crawford), UC Berkeley.

Fall 2015: Social and Cultural Processes in Architecture and Urban Design - Arch 110AC (Graduate Student Instructor for Galen Cranz), UC Berkeley.

Summer 2014: Bogotá’s Unit - Studio course (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

2008 – 2014: Architectural Composition Studio 1 (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

2010 – 2014: Architectural Composition Studio 2 (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes

2010 – 2014: Housing Studio (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

Summer 2013: Bogotá’s Unit - Analysis course (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

Summer 2011 – 2012: Experimental Housing Laboratory (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

2009 – 2010: Housing Theory (Professor), Universidad de Los Andes.

Awards + Recognition
COLCIENCIAS (Colombian Office of Science, Technology and Innovation) scholarship, Colombia, 2014.
COLFUTURO scholarship, Colombia, 2014.
Best Paper Award, ISVS-6 - 6th International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements. Contemporary Vernaculars: Places, Processes and Manifestations. North Cyprus, April 2012.
COLFUTURO scholarship, Colombia, 2006.
Meritorious Graduation Project, Universidad de Los Andes, September 2000.