Roger Paez, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of the Master’s Degree in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces
Leader of Design for City Making Research Lab
Roger Paez is an architect, professor and researcher working at the intersection of design, architecture, and the city, focusing on temporality, experimentation, and sociopolitical impact.
After earning his degree in Architecture from ETSAB (UPC), he was expanded his studies with the MSADD at Columbia University in New York. Back in Barcelona, he founded AiB, a studio devoted to contemporary architectural practice with a critical edge. His lifelong interest in relating design with mapping became the subject of his PhD dissertation at UPC, which he defended in 2015. He has since been recognised by the AQU as a Certified PhD and, in 2021, he was granted a first Research Sexennium.
He is a full-time professor at Elisava (UVic-UCC), where he is the director of the MEATS programme, together with Toni Montes. As the leader of Elisava’s Design for City Making Research Lab (DxCM), his work explores the diverse roles of design as a city making agent to further a critical, progressive, and exploratory urban agenda. He also serves as part-time professor of architectural design at ETSALS (URL).
He has published widely about temporary space design, public space, operative mapping, game-based formats, and the articulation between artistic and architectural practices.
Roger Paez is an architect, professor and researcher working at the intersection of design, architecture, and the city, focusing on temporality, experimentation, and sociopolitical impact.
After earning his degree in Architecture from ETSAB (UPC), he was expanded his studies with the MSADD at Columbia University in New York. Back in Barcelona, he founded AiB, a studio devoted to contemporary architectural practice with a critical edge. His lifelong interest in relating design with mapping became the subject of his PhD dissertation at UPC, which he defended in 2015. He has since been recognised by the AQU as a Certified PhD and, in 2021, he was granted a first Research Sexennium.
He is a full-time professor at Elisava (UVic-UCC), where he is the director of the MEATS programme, together with Toni Montes. As the leader of Elisava’s Design for City Making Research Lab (DxCM), his work explores the diverse roles of design as a city making agent to further a critical, progressive, and exploratory urban agenda. He also serves as part-time professor of architectural design at ETSALS (URL).
He has published widely about temporary space design, public space, operative mapping, game-based formats, and the articulation between artistic and architectural practices.
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rpaez@elisava.net
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