Rozana Montiel, photo by Ana Hop
Rozana Montiel
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On the occasion of Milan Arch Week 2025, we present a lecture by the founder and director of Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura entitled From disPARITY to rePARITY. How to turn the Wall.
The language of scarcity is abundant. English offers powerful words describing the extreme upward concentration of wealth that, with climate change and hyper-urbanization, define our time: inequality, inequity, injustice. Disparity—from Latin par (equal), also echoes disrepair and repair. In the context of Mexico, where economic, social, and spatial disparities stark, these two terms suggest others: preparity and reparity—states of readiness, states of repair. Necessity—driven invention in Mexico teaches how the qualitative addresses the quantifiable; how design is a method that finds 1+1=3, locating abundance in scarcity. Strategies of transformation, adaptive reuse, upcycling, and resignification are lessons from the communities where Rozana Montiel works as advocate and architect. This practical change is rooted in the belief that beauty is a human right. The lecture will present case studies in this ongoing work of REPARITY.
Rozana Montiel is the founder and director of Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura, a Mexico-based architectural firm. Her interdisciplinary work has been published in leading architecture journals and exhibited in Mexico, Italy, Spain, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. Her projects have been featured in the architecture biennales of Venice, Versailles, São Paulo, Rotterdam, and Lima.She serves on the Editorial Board of Arquine Magazine and has lectured, taught courses, and conducted seminars at renowned institutions around the world, including Kent University, Cornell AAP, Columbia GSAPP, Miami University, UC Berkeley, and IIT School of Architecture. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.
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Parte di: Milano Arch Week 2025
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