Cristina Parreño Alonso
Architect, designer, and educator at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT Speaker
Cristina Parreño Alonso studies and teaches architecture from a deep time perspective, and she explores these ideas in her teaching, her design and in exhibited works in public spaces.
Presentations
Anthropologist, writer and deep-time thinker Vincent Ialenti (author of Deep Time Reckoning) joined our Long Now Boston conversation event on April 5, 02021, from Vancouver, British Columbia, and led us on a journey deep into the Earth under Finland, where the world’s first nuclear waste repository is now in operation.
Monday, April 5, 2021
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.
Monday, December 6, 2021
Publications
Biography
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.
