Pancho Brown is Senior Editor + Engagement Manager at Metropolis Magazine and co-founder of Micropolitan Studio, a multidisciplinary art and design collective. Pancho is also a correspondent for Mexico's Arquine Magazine and serves on the Steering Committee for US Architects Declare and the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council.
ARQUINE Magazine, New York, NY, US, New York City Correspondent
New York City Correspondent doing architecture, art, and design journalism. In charge of preparing articles and interviews with leading practitioners and emergent voices for the online and the printed magazine. Selected interviews include Shohei Shigematsu, Mark Lee, Hilary Sample, Michael Meredith, Liz Diller, James Corner, Petra Blaise, Didier Faustino, Eric Owen Moss, among many more.
Sage and Coombe Architects, New York, Director of Communications
Lead the communications and marketing efforts, including new business proposals, press management, and social media.
Broad Group, Changsha, CN, Creative Consultant and Brand Advisor
Developed a branding and marketing strategy with Daniel Zhang, CEO for the rapid-construction department at Broad Core Group.
Reurbano, Mexico, MX, Research Intern
Investigated adaptive reuse and redevelopment in downtown Mexico City through archive research, interviews, and mapping exercises.
Workshop/APD, New York, NY, US, Designer
Lead and collaborative roles in architectural design and strategy for high-end residential and commercial projects in New York, Miami, and Chicago. Performed project functions related to design concept, massing, material research, visualization, project development, throughout DD, CD, and CA, including client management.
Selected Projects:
•Park Ave. Penthouse. 900 sq. ft. 2018, New York, NY. Interior Architecture and design
•Carton Brewery. 18,600 sq. ft. 2018, Atlantic Heights, NJ. Building design and interiors
•Transit City Master Plan. 4 Mill. sq. ft. 2017, Asbury Park, NJ. Urban redevelopment (concept design)
•242 Hotel. 500 K sq. ft. 2015, New York, NY. Interiors concept with MVRDV Studio
Ben Hansen Architect, New York, NY, US, Designer
Engaged in concept/schematics, design development, and construction documents including Department of Buildings (DOB) approval process in close coordination with the Expeditor’s office. Coordinated the projects with engineering and specialty consultants. In charge of the office website and dissemination/advertising materials, including press releases.
United Nations International Organization for Migration (UN-IOM), Kabul, Afghanistan , Lead Designer and Program Architect
Designed and managed the construction documentation of 15 institutional buildings. Supervised a 30-plus-member team of Afghan national architects and engineers. Responsible for the production of schematic design, working drawings, and final design packages. Lead the construction teams in close coordination with donor partners and local stakeholders.
Selected Projects:
•National Police Academy. 140 K sq. ft. 2013, Kabul. Educational/Institutional
•Refugee Center, 10 K sq. ft. 2009, Kabul. Institutional
•Women Assembly Hall, 15 K sq. ft. 2012, Maimana. Cultural
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US, Masters, Master in Design Studies in Critical Conservation
Critical Conservation applies issues of culture, history, and identity to design and development transcending such outdated dialectics as past-future, traditional-modern, and us-them. By engaging 21st-century questions of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, Critical Conservation serves an ever-more pluralist and global society. It provides designers, real estate professionals, planners, and others with a foundation to understand the cultural systems that frame conflicts inherent in making progressive places. Unlike preservation programs that presume the permanence of architecture and use top-down regulation to reinforce existing power structures, Critical Conservation extends beyond issues of age, history, and aesthetics to offer a framework of theory and research tools encompassing social, political, and cultural meaning. This enables students to make nuanced decisions about the impact of conservation in complex urban/natural places.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, NY, US, MArch, Environmental Parametrics
Research and analyze buildings performance systems, within the built environment.
Implement sustainable design strategies, including state of the art and new generation building systems using both theoretical and real case scenarios
http://www.case.rpi.edu
Universidad Católica de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua , BArch, Bachelor of Architecture
Latin X Leadership Fellow by the Harvard Kennedy School, Award
Organized by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government the fellowship to recognized active leadership in the Latin and Latin x community.
Ideas City Art Fellow, Grant
Organized by the New Museum in New York, the 2020 edition of Ideas City held in Singapore, brought together artists and designers from all over the world to talk about sustainability and city-making
The White House Redux, Honorable Mention
Selected project at The White House Redux,. Published in the “123 Selected Projects” Book, Storefront for Architecture, New York
Academic Excellency Price for Diploma Thesis, Honorable Mention
Academic Excellency Price for Diploma Thesis Ortiz-Gurdian Art Museum Managua, MAGMA 2006. With Marlon Ramirez and Bosco Arana.
