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Parga Vázquez, Andrea

Faculty Member

Positions

overview

  • PhD Architect in Architectural Projects from the ‘Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona’ of the ‘Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya’, ETSAB, UPC, with the thesis 'Buildings that make the city. Gordon Bunshaft's architecture for the Big Apple. 1947-1967' (http://hdl.handle.net/2117/113989). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Nautical Science and Engineering, DCEN, Barcelona Nautical Faculty, FNB, UPC, specializing in graphic representation and visual communication in architecture and engineering. She is an instructor professor at the University of Puerto Rico, UPRRP, and an advisory professor at the ‘Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Querétaro’. She is a member of the 'Form +' research group of the ETSAB, UPC. He worked on the innovation project 'Maconcret' (2019/20) with a scientific basis at the UPC in the research group 'AR.I.EN - Architecture, Industry and Engineering' for the program ‘ ‘Llavor’ grants for innovative projects with the potential to be incorporated into the productive sector'. She has been a MINECO postdoctoral researcher (2018/19) and FPI-MEC trainee researcher (2015/18) at the ETSAB, UPC. He has carried out research stays at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University, UNPHU, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2018) and at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico, EA, UPRRP, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017 and 2019). She has received help from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government for a research stay at the GSAPP, Columbia University, under the supervision of Professor Kenneth Frampton (2016). She has completed studies at the International Center of Photography, ICP, NYC (2016). She works and is co-responsible for the research projects: "The modern project in Puerto Rico: Visual Communication and Architectural Representation" (2019/21) and "Learning from the image. Digital repository of modern architecture of Puerto Rico” (2021/23), developed by: Archive of Architecture and Construction of the University of Puerto Rico, AACUPR. School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, EA, UPRRP. The researcher's contribution to the generation of knowledge focuses on the optimization of communication and dissemination tools for architecture and engineering projects. 'The visual communication of design project processes' and 'The image at the beginning of learning architecture and engineering' are the priority lines of the study and its contribution.

selected publications

research overview

  • Architecture and Photography, Visual Comunication, Representation and Visualization.

full name

  • Andrea Parga Vázquez

primary email

  • andrea.parga@upr.edu

phone

  • +34 661937278
Publications in VIVO
  • Contact Info
  • +34 661937278