Loreta Castro Reguera MAUD '10

Loreta is co-founder and partner with Jose Ambrosi of the architecture and urban design studio Taller Capital, based in Mexico City. The work of the studio focuses on understanding the city through its housing and water systems, with a special interest in the design of soft infrastructural public spaces. They argue for spatial quality and richness through material austerity, understanding design as a tool to fix the broken city. Their work has received national and international recognition.

Loreta is also professor at the School of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM. She is author of the book La imagen del agua en la ciudad, where she has gathered an important part of the research she has done on water management through urban design, propelled by the Druker Travelling Fellowship granted by the GSD. She has been an invited critic and professor at several universities in America, Latin America and Europe. She is member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction and of the Fundación México en Harvard, understanding these platforms as important opportunities to share with the broader community her interest in actively intervening in the city through architectures that provoke positive feedback loops.

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