Student Information
Graduate Student
Design, Environment and the Arts (Design)
Herberger Institute
Long Bio
Luz is currently a research assistant covering topics in sustainable landscape design and innovation in construction practices. She is also a PhD student in HIDA at ASU researching the relationship between sustainable urbanism and sustainable architecture. She is currently teaching online courses for architecture students.
Her background as a higher-education instructor started in 2016 when she joined the team of the School of Architecture, Art and Design in Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus Puebla. The subjects she has taught include themes in bioclimatic design, architecture design projects, sustainable architecture, social perspective in architecture, history of architecture, computerized drawing, 3D modeling, among others. In addition to her theoretical lessons, she has experience teaching 1:1 practical workshops focusing on alternative-construction techniques and low-impact materials.
Luz also worked as a practicing architect in the city of Puebla, Mexico. She has experience collaborating in the design of different scale projects (S, M, L, XL *) and several architecture typologies (residential, vertical housing, retail and multi use complexes).
*Nomenclature taken from Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas
Education
Luz is a current PhD student in the program: Doctor of Philosophy in Design, Environment, and the Arts offered by Arizona State University. She received a Master of Science in Sustainable Architecture at The University of Sheffield (UK, 2015), and a Bachelor of Architecture at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Mexico, 2012). During her bachelors degree Luz studied one year abroad in The School of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) from 2010 to 2011. Her area of expertise is Sustainable Design in Architecture Projects.