Rozana Montiel: On materials. Voluntary Simpli(cities) | Architecture Lecture
Collections is a dialogue between experience and imagination. It consists on having an active gaze
to discover new ways of seeing. We collect words, shapes, objects, places, stories, landscapes,
different kinds of spaces that we fix in our memory through our perception. The word collection
comes from the union of the prefix co meaning collective and the lectio which means reading or
lesson. This lecture compiles a series of lessons that derive from the different ways of reading
reality. For me, these lessons build knowledge and meaning, in design they are tools to transform
the imaginary into reality.
About the Speaker
A spring 2024 Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice, Rozana Montiel is founder and director of Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura (REA), based in Mexico City. The studio focuses on architectural design, artistic reconceptualizations of space, and the public domain and works on a variety of scales and layers ranging from the city to the book, the artifact, and other micro-objects. Her research includes urban uses of public space, resignification of building materials with an emphasis on place-making, livability, and temporary uses of space. Montiel is a recipient of the International Women Architects Prize (Paris, 2022); the MCHAP Emerging Architecture Prize (Chicago, 2018); and the Emerging Voices Award (2016), granted by The Architectural League of New York, among others. She is author of HU: Common Spaces in Housing Units (2018). With degrees from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, she has taught at Cornell, Columbia, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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