Cristina Parreño Alonso is a remarkable artist, architect, teacher and deep time thinker. At the Long Now Boston conversation on Dec 6, 02021, Cristina brought these various perspectives together in an inspiring talk focusing on how humans relate to nature through their architectural creations.
Cristina Parreño Alonso is an architect, designer, and educator at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT where her research Transtectonics explores cultural and environmental implications of expanded temporal sensibilities in architectural material practice. Her tectonic translations—material transfers across mediums and temporal scales, human and more-than-human—embody narratives that are told in the form of essays, exhibitions, and through architectural projects and installations that activate public spaces. Her firm, Cristina Parreño Architecture, has won several awards and architectural competitions. In 2014 she obtained the European award “40 under 40”. In 2015 she was selected emerging firm at the “Design Boston Biennial” where she exhibited her piece “Tectonics of Transparency: The Tower”. In 2017 she was selected by the City of Boston to install the permanent art installation “Deep Time Stories of JP” in the Hyde Square of Jamaica Plain in Boston. Her work was on view at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, in 2020, and she is one of the architects exhibiting in La Biennale di Venezia, 2021. As well as MIT Cristina has taught design studios at the State University of NY at Buffalo and Harvard GSD.
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Cristina Parreño Alonso is a remarkable artist, architect, teacher and deep time thinker. At the Long Now Boston conversation on Dec 6, 02021, Cristina brought these various perspectives together in an inspiring talk focusing on how humans relate to nature through their architectural creations. Cristina emphasized that we need to appreciate the full life cycle of the materials and the buildings that house us, organize our lives us and separate us from nature. We need to find ways to bring architecture and nature back together.
For a full appreciation of Cristina’s talk and responses to questions, please view the video recording of the event.
For more information about Cristina’s work, please visit her websites at Archello and MIT.