cristina
parreno alonso

Cristina Parreño Alonso is an architect and artist who specializes in activating public spaces through architecture and art installations.  She is also an educator at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT—Massachusetts Institute of Technology—where her research Transtectonics explores cultural, contextual and environmental implications of expanded temporal sensibilities in architectural material practice. Her “tectonic translations” : material transfers across spatial and temporal scales, beyond human and nature, technology and geology; embody narratives that are told in the form of art exhibitions and through architectural installations that activate public spaces