Critical Urban Theory, Critical Race Theory, Fascist Studies, Political Economy, Postcolonial Critique
Master in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology with Distinction, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Graduate Research Master in Urbanism, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Architecture degree (professional degree equivalent to a B.Arch + M.Arch), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Fité Matamoros is an architect and urbanist from Barcelona, Spain, and PhD candidate in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Fité Matamoros’ most recent research and teaching appointments include Research Associate at the Critical Landscapes Lab, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), for the project “Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest,” and co-instructor of the core course “Cities and Sites” at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design (CED).
Fité Matamoros’ research explores fascism as a spatial question—i.e. as not only deploying certain spatial tactics, but also as premised on certain spatial imaginaries—through the case of 20th century Spain. Its key contention is that exploring fascism through a spatial lens illuminates the links between fascism and colonialism that the early négritude scholars hinted at and thus revises our understanding of fascist movements in a myriad of ways.
Cities and Sites (ED5), Module II: Landscapes. Co-instructor with Professor Greg Castillo, UC Berkeley CED
“Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism, 1500-present” (ARCH170B). Graduate Student Instructor with Professor Margaret Crawford, UC Berkeley CED
Core Urban Design Studio I with Professor Scott Elder, UC Berkeley CED. Assistant Instructor with Professor Scott Elder, UC Berkeley CED
“Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design” (LDARCH 140). Graduate Student Instructor with Professor Anna Brand, UC Berkeley CED
Landscape Architecture option studio: “Field Work: Brexit, Borders, and Imagining a New City-Region for the Irish Northwest.” Teaching Fellow and Research Associate with Professors Niall Kirkwood and Gareth Doherty, Harvard University GSD, Spring 2019
Anthropology seminar: “Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities.” Teaching Fellow and Research Associate with Professor Gareth Doherty, Harvard University GSD & Anthropology Department, Spring 2019
Architecture seminar: “The Texts of the Modern: in Search of a New Narrative.” Teaching Assistant with Professor Rafael Moneo, Harvard University GSD, Spring 2018
Urban Planning seminar: “Energetics of Urbanization.” Teaching Assistant with Professors Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe, Harvard University GSD, Spring 2018
Urban Planning lecture course: “History and Theory of Urban Interventions.” Teaching Assistant with Professor Neil Brenner, Harvard University GSD, Fall 2017
Core Urban Design Studio IV “Housing.” Teaching Fellow with Professor Francesc Peremiquel, ETSAB, UPC, Spring 2015
Core Final Project/Thesis Studio in Architecture and Urban Design “City and Infrastructure.” Teaching Assistant with Professor Elías Torres, ETSAB, UPC, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
Core Architecture Design Studios XIX and XX “City and Infrastructure.” Teaching Fellow with Professors Carles Muro, Carme Ribas and Ton Salvadó, ETSAB, UPC, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
John L. Simpson ABD Graduate Students Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies to undertake doctoral fieldwork, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
Farrand Dissertation Research Grant for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning students at the University of California, Berkeley, 2022
Global Metropolitan Studies Grant for students in the Designated Emphasis to undertake summer fieldwork, 2020
Regent’s Fellowship for exceptional applicants to doctoral programs in the humanities and the social sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, 2019
Dimitris Pikionis Award for outstanding academic performance in the Master in Design Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2018
“La Caixa” Foundation full scholarship awarded to 48 students all over Spain to undertake graduate studies in any field in the US and Canada, 2016
General Scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education to undertake graduate studies in a Spanish University, 2015
Collaboration Scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education to participate in research activities with Professor Ángel Martín Ramos and the Urban Design and Planning Department at ETSAB, UPC, 2012
(Pending publication) Pol Fité Matamoros. “Peripheral urbanization in Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and Barcelona: A ‘southern’ look at the Spanish urbanitzacions.” in Urbanism Research Journal (QRU). Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2022–23.
(Under preparation) Doherty, Gareth and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-authored). “The Region as a Landscape: Borders, Brexit and the Irish Northwest.” in Landscape and Urban Planning.
Doherty, Gareth and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-authored). “From line to landscape: The Irish Northwest border region.” in Architectural Design: The Landscapists. Guest edited by Ed Wall. London: Wiley, 2020.
Peremiquel Lluch, Francesc and Pol Fité Matamoros. “Un catálogo de fragmentos de crecimiento residencial contemporáneo.” In Crecimiento Residencial Contemporáneo Español. Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2015.
Other contributions:
“The Operationalization of the Spanish Territory” (Harvard University GSD master’s thesis), included in the book and exhibition Platform 11. Cambridge: Harvard University GSD & ACTAR publishers, 2018.
Crecimiento Residencial Contemporáneo Español. Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2015.
Isabel Castiñeira Palou, Francesc Peremiquel Lluch, Joan Fortuny Vila, and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-edited). Crecimiento Residencial Contemporáneo Español. Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2015.
Ángel Martín Ramos and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-translated). First Spanish translation of Gourdon, Jean-Loup (2005). “La calle como forma.” in Urbanism Research Journal 7, 7–17. Barcelona: EDUGRAF, 2017.
Ángel Martín Ramos and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-translated). First Spanish translation of the articles by Banerjee, Tridib (2001) David Frisby (2003), and Henri Lefebvre (1992) included in Martín, Ángel. La calle moderna en 30 autores contemporáneos y un pionero. Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2014.