Lecture 3 Axel Paredes

Axel Paredes teaches design studio and digital fabrication courses at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala, where he is also director of the Digital Fabrication Laboratory. He has taught workshops on digital design and manufacturing at the TEC of Monterrey in México and at the Izmir School of Economics in Turkey. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with his thesis entitled Generative Opponents: A New Architecture for Native Soil, receiving the Imre Halasz Thesis Prize; as well as an M.A. degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the Architectural Association of London. Among his professional projects, his practice Axel Paredes Arquitectura recently won a competition in association with two other firms to design and build a sixty five thousand square meter building complex in Guatemala City, due to begin construction in 2010. 
(Right image credit: Fabric formed concrete system done with students at UFM)