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Writing

Sebastián López Cardozo (Montevideo, 1994) is an Uruguayan writer, editor, and architectural designer based in Toronto. His writing draws on his immigrant experience to articulate the politics of place and displacement, confronting architecture's recent and historic failures in regards to marginalized and vulnerable communities. To be vital and relevant, López Cardozo believes our discipline must undergo a continuing and comprehensive reassessment that makes explicit the assumptions and material conditions underpinning the built environment.

López Cardozo obtained his Master of Architecture from Rice University in 2022 and his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from the University of Toronto in 2018. He is the co-editor of Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico (Park Books, 2022), a guest editor for New York Review of Architecture’s Skyline, and a founding editor of Architecture Writing Workshop. Previously, he was a co-editor-in-chief for PLAT Journal (2019-2020). He has contributed writing to Azure Magazine, Cite, New York Review of Architecture, Paprika!, Architect’s Newspaper, and Canadian Centre for Architecture.

In 2021, he was also a co-author (with Juan José Castellón, Pierluigi D’Acunto, and Federico Bertagna) of a research essay on ecological rooftop infrastructures that was published in the Proceedings of the International fib Symposium. López Cardozo has been the recipient of grants and awards including a Graham Foundation Publication Grant (with PLAT Journal), the Center for Architecture’s 2021 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals (with PLAT Journal), the Houston Design Research Grant (with Lene-Mari Sollie), the A+ AZ Award for Student Work (with Lene-Mari Sollie), the Margaret Everson-Fossi Traveling Fellowship, the Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Traveling Fellowship, the Mildred Crocker Staff Award, the H. Russell Pitman Graduate Fellowship in Architecture, and the Guy Hagstette Award.

Over the past decade, López Cardozo has worked as an architectural designer and researcher for Partisans Architecture, Juan José Castellón (xmade GmbH), Carlos Jiménez (CJS), Jonathan Enns, Ferreira Design, and RAD Labs. He has also taken on various academic roles, including teaching assistance for history/theory and participation in design juries. Most recently, he worked as a design assistant at Rice University. He currently works as an architectural designer at Hariri Pontarini Architects.

sebastianlcw@gmail.com