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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2017
  • Architect
  • Master Degree
  • From Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

I was born at Mexico City in 1988, im a graduate architect of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana where i´m currently perform my master degree ; i have specialized studies in light weight structures by the Universidad Autnóma de México , speaker at conferences on regional and collaborative construction in both institutions, as well as Universidad Autónoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca. Founder and director of COAA, interdisciplinary team. I give construction workshops in communities in mexican states of Veracruz, Oaxaca and Puebla, as well as the development and implementation of public and private projects in Queretaro, Mexico State and Mexico City. Winner of International Design Contest Tensile structures (TENSANTIAGO 2012) at the V Latin American Symposium Santiago tensile structures 2012. Invited by the company Serge Ferrari, company # 1 in architectural textiles, in Lyon France to meet its materials and facilities . Winner in 2015 of the mention “Il Cantiere della terra cruda “in the 13 ° Concorso Fotografico Internazionale “” Le case di Terra paesaggio di architettura “in Italy. In the same year i had a collaborative photographic exhibition at the Arts Center San Agustin in Oaxaca as part of the workshop “taxonomy housing” .Coordinator of the project INGRI , taken place in the MUCA Roma in Mexico city. My work in COAA currently appears at the digital file pavilion of México at Venice Biennale of architecture 2016.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My roommate had a couch surfing account for a room that we had available in the shared apartment, we received many visits from different parts of the world. For my work in architecture I have traveled the world sharing a house with friends that I have met in the Country and the world. I am currently invited to a research stay in Zurich, where I do not know people

Interests

  • architecture
  • travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Music of the world

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Architecture and arts are my life, i have been selected in diferent open calls , and work in differents parts of México. I´m director of a Multidisciplinary working group call COAA https://consultoriocoaa.wordpress.com/

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico

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