Research based Visual Artist and Architect. Projects on conservation and the mediation between tradition and development. Working on the edge between fields. To plan and re-imagine systems that traverse between the universal and the particular, the natural and the cultural, geography and hydrography. To think politically, to observe, inhabit, and create to challenge habitual modes of perception.
Curator/ Co-Director of Art and Education, Cambridge, MA, US, Junior Architect and Project Manager
Kirkland Gallery is a student organisation dedicated to supporting the Harvard Graduate School of Design community and its emerging artists/designers. Multi-media exhibitions seeking out transdisciplinary proposals that expand the creative discourse at Harvard University community at large.
Art Research Project, Bogotá, CO, Visual Artist and Researcher
Cultural Landscapes and Rivers in Colombia. Ongoing research based project. Traveling 1500 km of Magdalena River by sailing, walking, and hiking. Ethnographic, documentary and theory based, it began as an excuse to travel and see the Heritage sites in Colombia. Yet the river became the main heritage site for questioning presevation politics and rivers as connectors.
El Taller de S, Bogotá, CO, Junior Architect and Project Manager
Projects worked in include Research, Architecture Restoration, Architecture design, and Landscape design. Mostly focused on the relation between the past and the present.
Lorenzo Castro Arqutiectos, Bogotá, CO, Junior Architect
Urban Planing and Urban Design.
Competition Winners In partnership with OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture NY) for Centro Administrativo CAN
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US, Masters, Critical Conservation
Interdisciplinary courses based on the dichotomy between tradition and development. Anthropology, Philosophy, Landscape and Visual Studies around heritage and conservation.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, CO, BArch, Architecture
5 Year program on Architecture. Graduated with a Minor in Art
Harvard University. Summer Research Grant. Asian Center, Grant
Summer Research Grant
Three-month independent research on Vernacular Architecture and Conservation methods in Japan. Shinto temples, wood craft and landscape.
Cumlaude, Honorable Mention
Graduated Cumlaude from B.Arch from Universidad de los Andes
