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Description: José Ibarra is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator. He is the 2019-2020 Architecture Teaching Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Milwauke.
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José Ibarra is a Venezuelan designer, researcher, and educator whose interdisciplinary work focuses on the intersection of architecture and environmental uncertainty. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning . Ibarra is director of Studio José Ibarra and co-founder of House Operations and the Agency for Work and Play . He is chair of the ACSA 2023–2024 Research & Scholarship Committee .
Ibarra’s research is centered around architecture’s capacity to productively assess and work with situations , usually crises. Through his teaching, design work, and writing, he generates multifocal ways to redefine design amidst social unrest, environmental degradation, and climate crisis. Recently, Ibarra published the book, Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis (AR+D, 2022) , co-edited alongside Caroline O'Donnell. Ibarra’s work also comprises curation, having de
Ibarra was the 2019-2020 Urban Edge Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he investigated design tactics for environmental remediation and justice that could work across different temporal scales, including deep time . During 2020–2022, he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. In addition to these roles, he has also taught at Cornell University and Princeton University, and has practiced architecture at Barkow Leibinger , CODA , fxColl
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