Daniela AtencioDaniela Atencio is a Venezuelan architect (Summa Cum Laude). She completed her postgraduate degree (Master of Design Research in Emerging Systems, Technologies and Media) at SCI_Arc in the United States (graduated with Distinction). Professor nd researcher at Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where she coordinates computational design and robotics courses. She is currently developing research projects called Programmed Materialism (translations between images, objects, robots, and pedagogies), Hyper_Artifacts, Hyper_Anomalies, and Bio_lent architecture. Member of Dislocal, a research platform associated with the World Bank, Global Research Program on Inequity, United Nations, Development Bank of Latin America, and Inter-American Development Bank, among other institutions. Co-founder of the Videogames & Robots research group at Universidad de Los Andes.
Her work covers topics of advanced technologies in architecture, representation, computational design, robotic manufacturing (computer-controlled), published and exhibited by platforms, editorials and associations, such as the International Association for Robots in Architecture ROB ARCH, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): REALIGNMENTS Toward Critical Computation, PA Parametric Architecture CDNEXT 7.0, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Pavilion Sezione del Padiglione Italia, DigitalFutures (Robotics and Digital Fabrication in Latin America), Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (Sigradi): Appropriation of Digital Fabrication from Latin America XXVI, XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and Routledge. In 2021, with Prof. Claudio Rossi, she started the first robotics course in undergraduate architecture in Latin America called Robot_Lab.
She previously taught in the United States at UCLA and SCI-Arc (Assistant Teaching) in graduate and undergraduate courses and in Venezuela in undergraduate courses. She has been a jury member at SCI_Arc, UCLA, University of Melbourne, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Kent State University, Texas A&M, and Universidad del Rosario (Argentina). Former Senior Associate Architect at PATTERNS (USA), where she led a wide range of projects in America, Europe, and Asia. Read More Read Less
