FACULTY
Armando Montilla
Armando Montilla is an architect with a degree from Canada (Université de Montréal, 1992), a Master from Pratt Institute in New York (1995) and a Master of Urban Geography at Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona (2004) He worked in Miami and Los Angeles, with firms such as Arquitectonica and The Jon Jerde Partnership. In 1999 he initiated Doctoral studies at ETSAB in Barcelona and was later a visiting Scholar at the Department of Histories and Theories of the AA in London. He did part of his Doctoral research at the Bauhaus DessauFoundationin Germany, being later a teacher with the Bauhaus KollegProgram. His area of interest covers the phenomenology of cities, the city as an event, the loss of public space and privatization of cityspace, the effect of emergent technologies in cities, as well as the effects of mass tourism. He completed a novel (IDENTI*-Park, 2002) on corporate trans-nationalism, city privatization and the city as a theme park, and has lectured at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, at the Curtin Universityof Technology in Perth, Australia; at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; at Harvard Graduate School of Design, at the University of Alberta in Edmontonand at Dalhousie UniversitySchool of Architecture in Halifax, Canada, at Parsons School of DesignandPratt Institutein New York; at the University of Wales Collegeat Newport in Wales UK, at the Royal Swedish Institute of Technologyin Stockholm, and at the American University of Sharjah in Dubai, UAE. In Barcelona he has taught at the Summer Travel Study Program of UIC/ESARQ, and has been invited critic to the Master Metropolis in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and has been part of the Program Faculty since 2005. His essays and writings have been published by the Center for the Advanced Inquiry in the Interaction of the Arts (Caiia) in the UK, by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundationon the books Die Stad als Event (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2002) and Dot.City(Berlin: Jovis, 2004) in Germany; by the Universities of Alberta and Toronto in Canada, on the Magazine Aula: Architecture and Urbanism in Las Américas in the US, on Transversal in Barcelona and 2D Architecture andDesignin Dubai. He currently teaches Upper Division Design Studio at the School of Architecture of Florida International University in Miami, and is presently a PhD Candidate at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on a comparative study on mobility and multi-culturalism between Miami and Barcelona.