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Finding Common Ground: Public Space Projects in the Midst of Social and Environmental Crises in Mexico and the US-Mexico Border Region
Gabriel Díaz Montemayor is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas since the Fall semester of 2019. Previously, he has taught at The University of Texas at Austin and Arizona State University. Before moving to the US, Gabriel taught at the School of the Desert/ISAD, in Chihuahua City.
Gabriel is a founding partner of LABOR (Landscape, Architecture, Border) Studio based in Chihuahua City since 2002. The work produced by the office is characterized by a broad range of scales in private and public commissions, mostly located in the state of Chihuahua, México. Among the outstanding works produced by the firm are the Design Guidelines for the Urban Edges of Chihuahua and the Tabalaopa Master Plan, both winners of Professional Awards granted by the Arizona Chapter of the ASLA, and the Vistas Cerro Grande Linear Park, winner of an honorable mention at the Third Latin American Landscape Architecture Biennial.
Gabriel is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 2008 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Congress of New Urbanism Central Texas Chapter from 2014 to 2018. Gabriel studied architecture at the School of the Desert/ISAD and he holds the professional architect title from the Autonomous University of the State of Chihuahua (UACH). Gabriel got his Master in Landscape Architecture degree from Auburn University, Alabama.
Gabriel has guest lectured in various universities in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia and the United States. His work has been published in Arquine Magazine, Domus México, Aula Journal, Progressive Planning, and Landscape Architecture Magazine, among others. Gabriel won the 2019 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award, at Junior Level, granted by CELA. Gabriel's research interests are concentrated in the development and advocacy of community building-reconstruction oriented Landscape Architecture and ecological urbanism solutions for the US-Mexico Border region, Mexican cities, and Latin American Landscapes.
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