Lecturer I at the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning and 2018–2019 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan; Founder at Office for Example (e.g)
About
Liz is a Mexican-American architectural designer and educator. She served as the 2018-19 William Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan's Taubman College where she continues to teach as a lecturer. Liz received her master of architecture from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, where she was awarded the Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship. Since 2016, Liz has served as a critic on reviews at MIT, the BAC, Taubman College, RISD, and the Harvard GSD.
Current Work:
After completion of her graduate coursework, Liz studied in Austria as the recipient of the Seebacher Prize for the Fine Arts. Her graduate thesis, Life Under the Desert Sun: Dust Storms, Steam Baths and Outhouses for the Unencumbered Desert Dweller, engages questions of housing typology, collectivity, lifestyle, and domesticity in the American Southwest. Liz's current research focuses on questions of material energies and (im)materiality within the architectural discipline. In 2018, Liz founded Office for Example (e.g.), a practice interested in examples of possible architectures.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Immateriality, energy, lightness, soft architectures, lifestyle
