Rosana Rubio-Hernandez

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design,Columbia University;
M.S. ETSA de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica.

Lecturer

Rosana Rubio-Hernández received her Masters of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at the Columbia University GSAPP(2007). She graduated with her Masters in Architectural Design at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM)(1999) where she is a PhD candidate with the dissertation entitled: "Variable Response Glasses at the Luminous Environment."

Rosana?s research interests focus on design attitudes towards materials as design-leading phenomena. Her studies seek the development of design strategies where the interplay of computation and materiality respond to each other in a system of continuous feed back.

She has developed two chromogenic glass prototypes with electrochromic and liquid crystal technologies. The former is filed in the MIT?s data base of Light Interacting Technologies for Envelopes "D.LiTE" and has a provisional patent application in the USA Patent and Trademark office. The latter received the first award at the 2004 "National Research Award: Escuela de la Edificación" in Madrid. She has participated in several professional symposiums and is currently curating exhibits for a conference series on materials hosted by the GSAPP: "Through Glass" (2007) and "Concrete Trajectories" (2008).

Rosana has been a teaching fellow at the ETSAM(2004-05) and invited critic at the GSAPP and the Barnard School in New York. She has received various grants among which stand out the "Fundacion Rafael Escolá, Research and Development Fellowship" (2002-04) and the "Fundacion la Caixa Fellowship to Fund Postgraduate Studies in the USA" (2006-08).

She has practiced as an architect collaborating with various studios in Madrid and building companies in Spain. She is one of the heads of the firm AYR that has both built and participated in design competitions receiving several national and international design awards; second prize in the 2002 "Thyssenkrupp Architecture Award" in Porto, Portugal and first prize in the 2003 international competition "House of the Future" in Barcelona, among others.