Gustavo Romanillos
Director of the Guatemala AA Visiting School |UK
Master's Degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the ETSAM (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), PhD in Geography and Master of Science in Geographic Information Technologies from the Univ. Complutense de Madrid (UCM), his work focuses on the spatial analysis of urban and social dynamics. He teaches at the Landscape Urbanism Master Programme of the Architectural Association and he is currently Assistant Professor at the UCM, where he coordinates the Master Degree in Smart and Sustainable Cities. As a researcher, he works in the tGIS Research Group at the UCM and has been Visiting Researcher at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College of London. As a consultant, he has worked for different institutions, such as the United Nations Development Programme.
Paola Constantino*
Universidad Francisco Marroquín |Guatemala
Guatemalan architect graduated from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM), she has mainly focused her work in the urban field, after studying Sustainable Urban Planning at the Universitá degli Studi di Roma – Roma Tre and getting her second master’s degree on Entrepreneurial Design and Development for Cities at the Centro de Estudios OMMA and UFM. She has been teaching Urban Analysis and Design and conducting “The City” Seminars at UFM since 2012. Since 2005 she also has been collaborating in many different urban projects at the Municipality of Ciudad de Guatemala. * Tutor invited to reviews at the Francisco Marrroquín University.
Ana Alemán de Paredes*
Universidad Francisco Marroquín | Guatemala
She holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) and a M.Arch. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). She has been practicing architecture since 2002, and in 2009 Ana and her husband Axel founded P+A, where they are currently working on various projects at different scales. Her work has been exhibited internationally including in the 2006 Beijing Architecture Biennale. She has also been a Professor of Architecture at UFM since 2008, focusing on the use of new materials and digital technologies in architecture, as well contemporary architectural theory. * Tutor invited to reviews at the Francisco Marrroquín University.
Axel Paredes
Universidad Francisco Marroquín | Guatemala
M.Arch. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.Arch. in Architecture Theory from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and Masters in Advanced Construction Technology from Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM). He has been invited to lecture at different institutions such as RISD, University College of London UCL, University College of Dublin UCD, Politecnico di Milano, Harvard GSD (Talk20), Universidad de Los Andes, and Izmir Turkey School of Economics among others. He has also been a Practicing Professor of architecture at Universidad Francisco Marroquín since 1998 and has been Visiting Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey ITESM. In 2009 Axel and his wife Ana founded P+A, where they are currently working on various projects.