Eduardo Rega Calvo is a licensed architect from the Canary Islands, living in the South Bronx, and a full-time Lecturer of Architecture at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, where he’s taught since 2014. He is also the co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design practice interim studio. Through research, design, and pedagogy, his work explores architecture’s capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to social and environmental movements for justice. Architectures of Refusal, initiated in 2017 is a long term project that frames and situates politically his varied research and pedagogical work. While rooted in urban and architectural design and theory, Eduardo’s practice intersects with critical geography and political theory. Working across disciplines and scales, he considers architecture as an expanded field of spatial knowledge and teaches design as a life-sustaining practice aligned with eco-feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist movements. His work has been situated in Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as in Detroit, Philadelphia, and the South Bronx.
