Doctor of Design in Architecture and Urbanism
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Miguel’s research combines architecture, art, environmental aesthetics, landscape architecture, philosophy, and urbanism. His research and teaching activities at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) comprised architecture and urban projects in Latin America and the United States, and courses on history and theory of architecture and landscape architecture. He has participated in international conferences in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia, while his work has been exhibited internationally. He holds a Doctor of Design degree and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University GSD, a certificate in Design of Sustainable Communities from Universidad Iberoamericana, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey, México (ITESM) and Universidad CEU San Pablo (Madrid, Spain). His dissertation, titled Urbanism and Autonomy, studied the term “autonomy” in postmodern urban thinking through Peter Eisenman’s and Aldo Rossi’s oeuvres. It documented the cultural engagement of “autonomy” as adopted from philosophy, art, and political theory to contradict the unjustified disciplinary detachment of architectural practice and theory from cultural concerns. The formulation of urban autonomy addresses urbanization through the analytical superiority of cinema over architecture and urbanism, praised by Rossi, to depict urban transformations.