inés ariza

hi.
i'm inés ariza, a first year SMArchS Design and Computation student at the MIT Department of Architecture.

before coming to MIT I studied Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), where I also worked for five years as an instructor in morphology and geometric representation systems. for the past seven years, I have led on-site construction projects, worked as a design assistant in architectural offices and as a research assistant in a self-organized community project.

I came to MIT to develop my research interests in material systems, data manipulation and open-source architecture. my main goal is to explore the use of computational strategies in defining processes and protocols rather than preliminary formal results. within this framework, I am strongly motivated to analyze how adaptive processes of making can reshape today’s dominant mass-produced fabrication paradigm and lead to an open-source user-defined architecture.