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José Aragüez_CV José Aragüez, PhD www.josearaguez.com www.thebuilding.info [email protected] +1 646 673 3165 (USA) +34 677 888 739 (Europe) José Aragüez is an architect and a writer. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, where he has been teaching since 2013, as well as the H. Deane Pearce Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech in Fall 2020. Aragüez holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. Previously, he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from University of Granada, Spain (Honorable Mention, University Graduation Extraordinary Prize, and 1st National Prize in Architecture) and, from Columbia GSAPP, with a post-professional Master’s degree (Honor Prize for Excellence in Design) and a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Architectural Research. Aragüez has lectured extensively across Europe and North America—including most of the top schools—in addition to the Middle East and Japan. Besides Columbia and Texas Tech, he has taught at Cornell, Princeton, Rice University in Paris, and University of Granada. His recent five-year project, culminating in the publication of The Building (2016, Lars Müller Pub.), is widely regarded in international circles as one of the most significant contributions to architectural discourse in the 2010s. His writings have also appeared in eFlux, LOBBY, Flat Out, European Architecture History Network Proceedings, Pidgin, and The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2018). In the past, Aragüez worked as an architect for Antonio J. Torrecillas (Spain), MVRDV (Rotterdam), and Idom/ACXT (London). Currently he is setting up his own architectural firm between New York City and Paris. Education 01/2019 PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University SOA. Sylvia Lavin, advisor. Committee: Stan Allen, Axel Kilian, Sanford Kwinter. 10/2012 Master of Arts Degree, The Graduate School, Princeton University 10/2012 Graduate Certificate in Media & Modernity, Princeton University SOA 05/2010 Graduate Certificate in Advanced Architectural Research, Columbia University, New York. 05/2009 MSc in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University, New York. Graduated with distinction (Excellence in Design) 09/2006 Master of Architecture and Urbanism, School of Architecture at University of Granada, Spain. Graduated with Honorable Mention, University Graduation Extraordinary Prize, and 1st National Prize in Architecture. Licensed to build in Europe 1 José Aragüez_CV Teaching Experience 2015- Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP 2020 H. Deane Pearce Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, Fall ‘20 2020 Visiting Instructor at Texas Tech University, Spring ‘20 2017 Visiting Assistant Professor at Rice University in Paris, Fall ‘17 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University AAP NYC 2016 Assistant Instructor at Princeton University SoA, Fall ’16 2014 Assistant Instructor at Princeton University SoA, Spring ’14 2013 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, Spring ‘13. 2005/06 Faculty Associate at the School of Architecture, University of Granada. Lectures & Talks 2020 "Spatial Infrastructure," at Málaga School of Architecture 2019 "Spatial Infrastructure," at Texas Tech University College of Architecture 2019 "The Building," at Harvard GSD. Respondents: Michelle Chang, Tom de Paor, Simona Malvezzi & Johannes Kuehn of Kuehn Malvezzi, Pier Paolo Tamburelli of Baukuh 2018 "Spatial Infrastructure," at University of Kyoto. Respondents: Akihisa Hirata, Makoto Ohsaki 2018 "The Building," at The Berlage. Respondents: Salomon Frausto, Michiel Riedijk, Arjen Oosterman, Martino Tattara, and Ido Avissar 2018 "The Building," at Politecnico di Torino. Respondents: Alessandro Armando, Michela Rosso 2018 "Critical Imageability," at Málaga School of Architecture 2018 "Architectural Thinking as a Form of Knowledge," series of three lectures at Rice School of Architecture Paris 2018 "The Building," at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. Respondent: John McMorrough 2017 The Building book launch presentation, at VOLUME library in Paris 2017 "The Building," at Viper Gallery in Prague 2017 "The Building," at the Faculty of Architecture in Brno 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Beth Hughes, Murray Fraser, Douglas Spencer. Moderator: Doreen Bernath. At the Architectural Association School of Architecture 2 José Aragüez_CV 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Jan de Vylder, Philip Ursprung, Laurent Stalder, and Irina Davidovici. At ETH Zürich 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Javier Castellano, Juan Gavilanes, Mané Sánchez, and Javier Boned. At Málaga School of Architecture 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Luis Fernández-Galiano, Emilio Tuñón, Stan Allen, and Luis Rojo. At the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Kersten Geers, Christophe van Gerrewey, and Tibor Pataky. At EPFL Lausanne 2017 "The Building," at Columbia GSAPP 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Sylvia Lavin, Mark Lee, Dora Epstein-Jones, and Neil Denari. At the Architecture + Design Museum, in Los Angeles 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Bob Somol, Sean Keller, John McMorrough, Penelope Dean. Moderator: Thomas Kelley. At UIC School of Architecture, in Chicago 2017 "The Building," at the New York Institute of Technology 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Amale Andraos, Stan Allen, Bernard Tschumi. Moderator: Jorge Otero-Pailos. At Columbia University GSAPP 2017 "The Building." Respondents: Rafi Segal, K Michael Hays, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, and Bryan Norwood. Moderator: Ana Miljacki. At MIT, in Boston 2017 The Building book launch presentation, at Cosentino City Manhattan 2017 "The Building," at Cornell University 2016 "The Architecture-Engineering Hybrid and The Formal Domain," at Málaga School of Architecture 2016 "The Architecture-Engineering Hybrid and The Formal Domain," at Granada School of Architecture, Spain 2016 The Building book launch presentation, at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale's headquarters 2016 “Infrastructural Thinking as an Approach to the Unfinished in Design,” at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City 2014 “Form Beyond Shape: The Logic of Singularity in Vittorio Giorgini’s Topological Approach to Design,” at the Media & Modernity Colloquium, Princeton University SoA 2014 “On the Architecture-Engineering Hybrid and the Formal Domain,” at ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3 José Aragüez_CV 2013 “On Spatial Disposition in Architecture,” at the Technion School of Architecture in Haifa, Israel 2013 “Form’s Patterned Idiosyncrasy,” at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, Canada 2011 “Scholarly Research in the context of Architectural Research,” guest speaker at the Advanced Architectural Research Seminar. Columbia University School of Architecture, New York 2009 “On Program and Topology,” at Madrid School of Architecture, Spain 2009 “The Alternative Block,” at Madrid School of Architecture, Spain 2006 “Urban cultivation. New experimental city – prototype,” at Granada School of Architecture, Spain 2006 “Cultural Center in Las Tablas PAU, Madrid,” in Bilbao, Spain Publications History/Theory/Research 2020 “Architectural Language and the Search for Self-Determinacy: The Cooper Union School of Architecture 1964-1985,” forthcoming in Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press) 2018 “Critical Imageability,” in eFlux architecture 2018 “On Architecture’s Metacriticality,” chapter in The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2018) 2017 “Stuck in the 60s: The Building as a Domain of Discursive Production,” in LOBBY nº6 2017 “Sponge Territory,” in Flat Out nº 2 2016 The Building (Lars Müller publishers). Editor and contributor 2014 “The Prospect for Architectural Criticality after the Fictitious Post-Critical Stalemate,” in Critic-All, School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid 2012 “From Difference within Structure to Difference in Itself: Architectural Morphology in the Israeli Scene c. 1970,” in Proceedings of the 2nd European Architecture History Network conference 2012 “Towards a Critique of The Organic in Architectural Thinking,” in PIDGIN 12 2012 “The Possibility of Architectural Theory in the Post-Theory Era,” in HipoTesis K. HipoTesis Platform, Madrid 4 José Aragüez_CV 2011 “The Construction of Concept-Driven Frameworks in Architecture: Rethinking Theory after the Post-Critical Stalemate,” in Theory for the Sake of Theory Vol. 2. DAKAM publishing, Istanbul 2011 “Scrutinizing «The Organic» in Architectural Thinking,” in ABSTRACT Magazine 2009/2010, GSAPP Columbia University 2009 “The Cultivated City. Manifesto for the Construction of a New Psychological Space,” in Hibrydization and Cross–Culturality in Contemporary Habitation. The Andalusian Territory as a Receptive Matrix. Regional Council of Andalusia. Housing and Urban Planning Regional Ministry. Seville 2005 “Traditional Revetments in the City of Granada: Study and Practical Applications” (library of the Graduate School of Architecture in Granada; and Polytechnic library of the University of Granada) 2004 ”Zoomecs,” in 040204 Drift in Zomecs. Rizoma, Málaga Design Projects 2010 “Interventions in Block of the Central City,” in NEXT, Collective Housing in Progress. Density Series, a+t architecture publishers, Madrid (2010) 2010 “The Alternative Block,” in ABSTRACT Magazine 2008/2009, GSAPP Columbia University 2010 “Mixed Tower in Dubai,” in ABSTRACT Magazine