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Twitter: @javierest
I joined the Archinect news crew in 2001 and then served as the Chief Editor between 2004 and 2006. I am a
PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, Department of Geography. The crux of my research is the production of spaces in transitional zones, such as post-military areas. I'm interested in the the struggles for space and place in capitalist economies, especially U.S. cities.
In addition, I am currently writing essays for
Alphabet City, the Cornell Journal of Architecture, and Thresholds.
Recently I finished a piece for
AD on
Francois Roche/R&Sie(n) and their
Lost In Paris project, and I have a forthcoming book review for Historical Geography on
What is a City? Rethinking the Urban After Hurricane Katrina. Other commissioned work includes a short submission to
Frame magazine.
I also teach spatial theory at the
California College of the Arts.. My next seminar (Spring 2010) will focus on cities and globalization. I was at
Cornell's Department of Architecture for a visiting teaching stint in 2009, teaching studio and theory.
++ Articles, Interviews & other things ++ (some links might be dead)
Latest: "High Quality Rolex Replica Watches", a talk at MIT's HTC symposium:
paper |
talk (via K.Varnelis) |
Architecture Imagined as Ecological |
Digital Fabrication Book Review
And...
Mark Magazine: Another Architecture numbers: 02 (on artist Primitivo Suarez, "Peep Show"), 06 (on Santiago Cirugeda & Recetas Urbanas, "Home Cooking"), 08 ("Letter from San Francisco") and a short piece on the decaying Berkeley Art Museum |
The Swiss Architecture Museum S AM journal (on Santiago Cirugeda) | Book review:
Else/Where: Mapping in the Urban Design Review
(reposted here) Spring 07 | Entorno
02 (on the web 2.0) and
03 (interview Toshiko Mori) [PDF's] |
Toshiko Mori reposted |
306090 08 (as part of Team HED w/
M. Joachim and L. Greden) | and Archinect (of course).
Please contact me (javier at archinect dot com / hola at javier.est.pr) for more information, or call me: (607) 233-4615. Curriculum Vitae. Short resumé.
++ Invites ++
delicious bookmarks &
network (send bookmarks via "for:javierarbona" tag) |
Bezoar | Twitter: @javierest (request access to view tweets).
++ The FabTreeHab w/ Team HED ++
Index Award Finalist 2005 | in
Popular Science 11.06 |
Technology Review | Dwell 02.07 |
more bookmarks |&
exhibited nationwide.
++ Stuff On Archinect ++
Primitivo Suarez |
Frank Gehry: A New Village at MIT |
Studio Luz |
Best of 05 |
a Response to Andrew Saint |
Foreclosing Cities
++ More about me ++
After I earned a B.Arch from Cornell University, I worked as an architect in Los Angeles for a few years. I then devoted two years to graduate school (M.S., MIT) while doing a couple of
competitions with colleagues. Broadly, I am most interested in the urban and regional design scales. Another axis of my work is the question of nature and its construction, especially the involvement of landscape architects in these quests.
In 2004, I moved to my hometown of San Juan to teach at the Polytechnic University School of Architecture, Puerto Rico. Previously, my master's thesis at MIT, a written work, focused on the military as landscape developer at the former bombing range and test site of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Part of the research has been presented at conferences and a shorter version is
published. I now reside in San Francisco and I began a PhD program in geography at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2006. This Fall 2008 I am teaching a theory course at the California College of Arts and in the Spring I'll be teaching at Cornell University's architecture department.
I am also interested in surveillance, ecology, the prison and military-industrial complex, food and culture, sex and society, capitalism, technology, and tourism.
++ Other employment ++
1999-2001 Brian Alfred Murphy /
BAMCDI
2001-2002
Yazdani @ Cannon
Summer 07:
IDEO
++Contact++
If you would like to contact me and are NOT an Archinect member, simply email hola at javier.est.pr
Phone via Google Voice: (607) 233-4615
If you have anything to send me in the mail, here's my department address at UC Berkeley:
Department of Geography
507 McCone Hall #4740
Berkeley, CA 94720-4740
Se habla español.
Si parla italiano. 
