This semester, the Rice School of Architecture welcomes three new fellows to our faculty.
Wortham Fellow Federico Farinatti is a photographer, architect, and educator whose work develops visual languages for conveying the atmosphere of architectural space. He holds an M.Arch. from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and has worked with architecture practices and academic institutions across Europe, with a particular focus on Swiss and Italian architectural heritage.
Wortham Fellow Alicia Moreira is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator whose work examines architecture’s relationship to property, collectivity, and alternative forms of domesticity. She holds an M.Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. from the University of Maryland. Her Wortham research, Low Resolution, investigates ownership ambiguity in Houston and the relationship between use and representation.
Postdoctoral Fellow Alan Alaniz, appointed in partnership with the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL), is an architect and historian from the Rio Grande Valley whose research examines design professionals’ roles in urban development, state formation, and the political economy of the twentieth-century Americas. He holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.Arch. from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from Yale University.
"We are delighted to welcome Alan, Alicia, and Federico to our faculty ranks,” said Dean Igor Marjanović. "Their diverse practices and areas of inquiry—from architectural photography and alternative forms of domesticity to the history and political economy of the built environment—add invaluable new perspectives to our school’s teaching and research culture and to the global conversation about the agency of architecture in an ever-changing world."