German Pallares
Phd in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Currently hosts From the Margins: Perspectives on Architecture Podcast.
Before coming to UPenn, German was a professor and Chair of the School of Architecture at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City, teaching both Studio (Projects 1-4 – Housing, Mixed-Use Complexes, and Community Buildings) and History & Theory courses. In his five years at Tec Monterrey, German initiated and managed collaborative projects with international offices like Zaha Hadid Architects and Legorreta Arquitectos, with whom the Cátedra Legorreta academic joint venture was created, which included both a research component and project studios to develop the sustainable development of marginalized communities and their integration into surrounding urban areas. This collaboration led to his joining of Legorreta Arquitectos as a Project
Designer/Manager for the Aga Kahn Foundation’s University and Hospital Campus in Tanzania, Africa.
His dissertation research centered in the 1960's and 1970's bi-national infrastructure and architecture projects at the U.S. / México Borderlands as agents of modernization along the transboundary system.
Supervisors: David Leatherbarrow, Barry Bergdoll, and Daniel Barber
Currently hosts From the Margins: Perspectives on Architecture Podcast.
Before coming to UPenn, German was a professor and Chair of the School of Architecture at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City, teaching both Studio (Projects 1-4 – Housing, Mixed-Use Complexes, and Community Buildings) and History & Theory courses. In his five years at Tec Monterrey, German initiated and managed collaborative projects with international offices like Zaha Hadid Architects and Legorreta Arquitectos, with whom the Cátedra Legorreta academic joint venture was created, which included both a research component and project studios to develop the sustainable development of marginalized communities and their integration into surrounding urban areas. This collaboration led to his joining of Legorreta Arquitectos as a Project
Designer/Manager for the Aga Kahn Foundation’s University and Hospital Campus in Tanzania, Africa.
His dissertation research centered in the 1960's and 1970's bi-national infrastructure and architecture projects at the U.S. / México Borderlands as agents of modernization along the transboundary system.
Supervisors: David Leatherbarrow, Barry Bergdoll, and Daniel Barber
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