Planning and Design Thesis Prize is given to the graduating students in each of the programs who have prepared the best independent theses during the past academic year.

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Harvard GSD | Architecture Module “The Beacon” Feature

December 14, 2021

"The Third Space" #architecture option studio led by Cory Henry @ateliercoryhenry (TA: Damian Bolden) held its final review earlier this semester. Exploring community development, cultural complexity, and displacement, students examined ideas of place and identity through the programming and design of a Third Space. The site engaged the built and social fabric of one of the United States’ most intensely gentrifying communities, #SouthAtlanta.⁣⁣⁣

Images from "The Beacon" by Rogelio Cadena and Aggie Fielding

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Harvard GSD | Elements of Urban Design “Southie Park” Feature

October 20, 2020

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The first of two seven-week design exercises for the core studio "Elements of Urban Design" asked students to make proposals for a site in South Boston, an urban core in transition located on the southern edge of the historic downtown. In teams, students explored a program with #housing as the backbone for a broader urban strategy.⁣⁣ (Urban Planning and Design at Harvard)

Images from "Southie Park" by Erin Soygenis and Rogelio Cadena

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Vyond | Animator Spotlight: The Laboratory of Everyday Things

July 01, 2019

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The group of architects — known as The Laboratory of Everyday Things — won first place in the Smart City Solutions Competition. Hosted by the University of Miami and the City of Coral Gables, the contest was created to help the city become more efficient and sustainable.

Rogelio Cadena, a project manager at DLGV Architects, is a member of The Laboratory of Everyday Things. He and his colleague Claudia Ansorena were responsible for using Vyond to transform the team’s ideas and storyboards into animation. We caught up with Rogelio to learn a bit more about what the video creation process was like and his advice for fellow video creators.

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The Center for Computational Science | “N.O.T. Lands 1st Place in the 2019 Smart Cities Solutions Competition” Feature

July 01, 2019

The final presentations for the inaugural Design Your Coral Gables: Smart City Solutions Competition were held at eMerge Americas on Monday, April 29, 2019. The event was led by Joel Zysman, Director, CCS Advanced Computing, and Raimundo Rodulfo, Director, IT for the City of Coral Gables. This three-month Competition, officially launched in January at the 3rd annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference yielded some great ideas. The Competition was designed in collaboration with the University of Miami School of Architecture,  the Center for Computational Science, and the City of Coral Gables.

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Architect Magazine | Drawings Featured in Cúre & Penabad Profile

February 01, 2018

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The drawings below, produced whilst working at Cúre & Penabad under the instruction of its principals and in collaboration with Claudia Ansorena, were published in Architect Magazine which featured the principals on February 1st, 2018.

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Luster Magazine | Neushop at LuminaireX Feature

October 12, 2017

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La atemporalidad no solo es constante y máxima, sino también el alma de Neushop. Abrazada a este concepto desde sus inicios, la firma –otrora Neutroni– se aleja de los convencionalismos en busca de los códigos estéticos básicos y esenciales que rigen la vestimenta. Su destino siempre ha sido la purificación de las piezas elementales en un afán por convertirlas en productos que son excepcionales por el solo hecho de ser la versión más fundamental de sí mismos; una versión construida con materiales de altísima calidad por los mejores fabricantes del mundo.

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KooZA/rch | Drawings Featured in Cúre & Penabad Profile

August 05, 2017

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The drawings shown, produced whilst working at Cúre & Penabad under the instruction of its principals and in collaboration with Nicolas Delgado Alcega, were published on KooZA/rch in a feature of the office on August 5th, 2017.

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University of Miami News | Rome Program Students Work on Energy Installation at MAXXI Museum

April 2016

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Rome students Rogelio Cadena, Claudia Ansorena, Alyssa Atkinson and Smitha Vasan proudly represented the U-SoA in the building of the Sou Fujimoto Installation “Energy,” in Rome during spring break.

The U-SoA Rome Program was invited to be part of an international team of designers selected by Margherita Guccione, director of the architecture division of the MAXXI, the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, to construct Fujimoto’s imagined built environment.

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University of Miami News | Design/Build Students Create U-SoA’s First Mobile Chicken Coop

February 03, 2017

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The Chicken Coop, designed to provide roosting for 100 chickens with 30 boxes for egg-laying, taught students how to think inside and outside the box.  Students learned how to design and build a small farm building from client interview and presentation through, working drawings, cost estimating material ordering and construction - all in 16 weeks. Students learned that ideas must be grounded in buildable solutions and that detail and craft are as important as big ideas.

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