Dr. Ana Durán Calisto

Biography

Ana María Durán Calisto is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University, specializing in urban planning and architecture. She co-founded Estudio A0 in 2002, a practice that designs a diverse array of multi-scalar projects through close collaboration with clients and community partners. Notably, the building QPH received LEED Gold certification and was ranked 8th among 500 socio-environmental projects in Latin America in 2015. Her collaboration with Del Hierro and AU L + Arquitectos won a competition for the Ikiam University campus design, earning the Prize for the SDSN Amazonia Infrastructure Award at COP 21 in Paris. Durán Calisto has received numerous accolades, including the Mark Cousins Theory Award for her work on extractivism in the built environment and the Loeb Fellowship from Harvard. In 2024, she was granted the Yale University Public Voices Fellowship. She has served as an academic advisor for the Ecuadorian Minister of Housing and as a consultant for various international programs aimed at sustainability in Amazonia. In addition to her practice, she has lectured and taught at prestigious institutions such as Harvard and UCLA. Durán Calisto is also an accomplished author and has published articles in prominent architectural magazines.

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