Rocío Calzado

Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and urban planner based in Paris, currently pursuing a PhD at Ecole de Ponts of Paris. Her work focuses in exploring the relationship between buildings and politics. This research is applied to the field of social housing and developed through the study decision-making processes around the demolition and transformation of European housing estates. Calzado holds a bachelor and a master’s in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a two years master’s in Politics of Ecology at Sciences Po Paris. She collaborates as an urbanist and as a researcher with the architecture studio l’AUC Paris on a housing estate transformation project in Paris, while being part of the Technics, Regional Planning and Society Research Centre Laboratory (LATTS). In 2019 Calzado received the SERP grant to conduct research at Tokyo Tech on how existing infrastructural systems could drive change towards more sustainable urban models, and in 2020 her master thesis developed was nominated by the Fundació Mies Van Der Rohe for the Young Talent Architecture Awards. Rocio’s work has been published in different specialised magazines and she has participated as a speaker in different international conferences and congresses such as the European Network for Housing Research, Pannel 21 at the World Urban Forum 11, the Biennale of Architecture and Landscape of Paris or TU Delft Atlantis Magazine.