My current research examines the history of the relationship between reproductive work and domestic architecture in Mexico City. I look at the effects of colonial legacies, patriarchal domination, forms of production, and Mexican racism in shaping such spaces, while also focusing on the everyday practices around housework and their meanings for those who perform and depend on them. It aims to make visible the labor dynamics that domestic architecture constitutes and occludes and question claims of modernization as a sign of social progress. Using domestic labor as an organizing device, I analyze how gender, race, and class create asymmetric relations to the city and the home.
Tania Osorio Harp is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture's history, theory, and society program, with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality studies. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Her master's thesis was titled “Landscapes of Domestic Labor: Gender, Race, and Power in La Condesa." In 2012, she co-founded the architectural office APRDELESP as an ongoing research initiative grounded in the principles from A Manifesto on the Appropriation of Space. Operating through ELHC—a network of experimental, physical, and/or digital 1:1 models conceived as independent economic systems embedded within the urban fabric—APRDELESP aimed to function as a form of public infrastructure. From 2012 to 2016, Osorio Harp contributed to various architectural projects through APRDELESP and was actively involved in the development and management of the ELHC network.
Instructor
Architectural Design – Academic Talent Development Program, UC Berkeley (Summer Sessions 2018 – 2023)
Graduate Student Instructor
ARCH 170A – A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism, 1500 to the Present (Spring 2024, Spring 2020)
ARCH 130 – Introduction to Architectural Design Theory and Criticism (Fall 2023)
ARCH 230 – Advanced Architectural Design Theory and Criticism (Spring 2023)
ARCH 170B – A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism, Pre-history to the Renaissance (Fall 2020)
Mentor
Berkeley Connect in Architecture, Undergraduate Mentorship Program, UC Berkeley (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
Reader
GWS C138 – Gender and Capitalism (Fall 2021)
GWS 100 AC – Women in American Culture (Spring 2019)
Berkeley Connect Fellowship – Undergraduate Mentorship Program, UC Berkeley (2024-2025)
Tinker Field Research Grant – Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley (2021)
UC MEXUS-CONACYT Doctoral Fellowship for Mexican Students – University of California + Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico (2020-2024)
Student Grant for Research on Race and Gender – Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley (2018)
Chester Miller Fellowship – College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley (2018)
Beca Arq. Marcelo Zambrano – CEMEX, Mexico (2017)
2019, Osorio Harp, T. (2018), "Is forensic architecture the new muralism of the Mexican state? A reflection on racialized violence and the construction of Mexican identity," Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 5:3, pp. 371-80.