Pol Fité Matamoros

Beatrix Farrand Designer in Residence and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

SPECIALIZATIONS

Architectural, landscape, and urban history and theory; fascist studies; racial geographies; visual culture; postcolonial studies; and the history of regime-building.

EDUCATION

PhD, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley

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 BArch + MArch), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

BIOGRAPHY

Pol Fité Matamoros is the Beatrix Farrand Designer in Residence in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Through the case of Spain at the turn of the 20th century, Fité Matamoros' research examines the broader connections between visual culture, the spatial production of social and racial difference, and the spatial imperatives of regime-building. It dissects how fascist discourse becomes conceivable, gains traction, and is put into action through seemingly ordinary images, spatial plans, and designs—advancing our understanding of fascist movements amid the contemporary rise of global ethnonationalisms.

Fité Matamoros holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from the University of California, Berkeley (2025), and a Master in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (with Distinction). He also holds Master’s degrees in Architecture (2014) and Urbanism (2016) from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

His academic work has been supported by several fellowships and awards, including a 'La Caixa' Foundation Full Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in any discipline in the U.S. or Canada, the Dimitris Pikionis Award for outstanding academic performance in his program at Harvard, and the UC Berkeley Regent's Fellowship for outstanding doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences.

COURSES TAUGHT

(2026) LDARCH 206 – Final Project Preparation Studio: Thesis and Reports

(2026) LDARCH 102 – Case Studies in Landscape Architecture Option Studio

(2025) LDARCH 252 – Thesis & Professional Project Proposal Seminar, with Louise Mozingo

(2025) LDARCH 101 – Fundamentals of Landscape Design Studio

(2024) ENV DES 201 – Urban Design Fundamentals Studio

(2023-2024) ENV DES 5 – Cities and Sites, with Greg Castillo (2023) and Walter Hood (2024)

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

John L. Simpson ABD Graduate Students Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies to undertake doctoral fieldwork, University of California, Berkeley, 2022 & 2024

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

Publications

(Forthcoming) Fité Matamoros, Pol. “Orchestrating difference and similarity: Black fungibility, and the spatial redrawing of racial categories in Spanish colonial Morocco, Sahara, and Guinea”. In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR).

(Forthcoming) Brand, Anna and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-editors). White, Green, Black: Methodological Racisms in Urban Greening Projects (working title). Urban Affairs Rights to the City book series.

(Forthcoming) Brand, Anna and Pol Fité Matamoros (first co-authorship). “Methodological Whiteness: Dissecting Post-Katrina Greening Imaginaries.” In Brand, Anna and Pol Fité Matamoros (co-eds.) White, Green, Black.

Doherty, Gareth and Pol Fité Matamoros (first co-authorship). “The Region as a Landscape: Borders, Brexit and the Irish Northwest.” in Socio-Ecological Practice Research (SEPR).

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, 2023.

Fité Matamoros, Pol. “Bay Area’s Innovation Waterfronts: Public Space as Productive Space.” In PORTUS | Port-city relationship and Urban Waterfront Redevelopment, 45. Venice: RETE publisher, June 2023.

Doherty, Gareth and Pol Fité Matamoros (first co-authorship). “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.