ARTIST NAME Alan Rios
TEAM NAME WASA
GROUP Group XLV, Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE
BIO Born 1991 in Mexico City, Mexico
Lives in Mexico City, Mexico

Education

Architecture, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, Mexico
Architecture, INHA University, Incheon, South Korea

Work Experience

2016 - present
- WASA, design collective, Mexico City, Mexico

2015 - present
- BLANGKAZ SA DE CV, furniture design and architecture
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2009 – 2015
-Alan Ríos Cruz Graphic Arts, printing company

Professional Highlights

2017
- Mentor, Philein Project, Aalto University, UT of Calakmul, ITESM, UNAM, IT of Cancún, Mexico
- President, EXATEC architecture association, Mexico City, Mexico
- Class Adviser, Design Fundamentals II, ITESM, Mexico City, Mexico

2016
- Tutor, Aalto Lab Mexico

2015
- Lab participant, Aalto Lab Mexico

Contests

2016
- Finalist, (WASA), Espacio inserto, encuentro (embedded space, uncertain encounter), Arquine No.18 MEXTRÓPOLI Pavillion
- Second place, (WASA), “quéquieredecir? (whatdoyoumean?),” Peace Pavillion

2015
- Finalists / digital archive (Aalto Lab México), “cuxta-há (living water),” 15th Venice Architecture Biennale: Reporting from the front
PORTRAIT
Alan Rios portrait
FINAL PROJECT
The Machine is Broken!
The Machine is Broken! image
© Danny Small

Project Details...
JURY
Christian Kühn
Chus Martínez
Florian Pumhösl
Kolja Reichert
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein