Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera

Who is Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera?

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is an Architect, Critical Theorist and Urban Planner.

Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico, was trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, he holds degrees in Urban Planning by the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and a PhD in Urbanism by UNAM, Mexico. Dr. Valenzuela was a postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism in Paris, a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the last three years a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley. He also has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University, the Technical University of Athens, and was appointed the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. A consultant on urban revitalization strategies to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, his work has been funded by several international institutions and organizations and has published widely in specialized planning journals.