Lecturer Cristina Parreño Alonso and Assistant Professor Joel Lamere (with Cynthia Gunadi, GLD Architecture) are among the winners of the fourth Design Biennial Boston, organized by the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission in collaboration with pinkcomma gallery, BSA Space, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. 

The other winners include Dan and Marie Law Adams of Landing Studio and Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks of MASS Design Group. Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim of IK Studio and Daniel Ibañez and Rodrigo Rubio of Margen-Lab received honorable mention awards this year for their contributions.

pinkcomma gallery is run by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, a PhD Candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art at MIT, and Mark Pasnik.

“Boston has a deep creative talent pool, and these four selections for the 2015 Design Biennial reflect that,” said Mayor Walsh. “I want Boston to be a municipal arts leader, and putting this type of exciting and thoughtful work into the public realm is what gets us closer to that goal."

“At a time when the mayor has brought forth much-needed questions about the quality of buildings being produced in the city, the Biennial demonstrates how Boston’s new design talent can be drawn on for its innovative thinking and ability to respond to the challenges we will face in the future,” explains Chris Grimley, one of the exhibition's curators of pink comma and over,under.

In addition to the display of their prior work at BSA Space, the four recipients will construct site-specific installations on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. 

Read more, here: http://designbiennialboston.com

Cristina Parreño Alonso is a licensed architect in Spain and UK, with ten years of professional experience working in Madrid and London. She holds a Masters and Bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) where she graduated with honors.

She started her professional career in Madrid, and in January 2005 she moved to London and joined Foreign Office Architects (FOA) where as project director she was responsible for a number of projects in Spain and UK. In February 2008 she moved to Madrid to open FOA Madrid and continued her role as Project Director for the new building of the Forensic Institute on site. Since 2009, she has been working on her own practice and teaching at various architecture universities. She has taught design studio at the University of Western Australia, at the State University of New York at Buffalo and she currently teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios at MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
 

Joel Lamere is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches architectural design studios and seminars in architectural geometry, design and representation. Prior to teaching at MIT he taught studios at Northeastern University, and he has been on design review juries at Harvard and RISD. He previously worked at Anmahian Winton Architects in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as design and fabrication consultant to Utile Inc. on their Boston Harbor Parks Pavilion. Joel received his Master in Architecture with distinction in 2006 from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Boston University.