#  Juan Villalón Hernando 

Master of Architecture in Urban Design candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Design 

 

 

 



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 Juan Villalón Hernando is a Master of Architecture in Urban Design candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was born in Madrid and grew up in Lima, where he studied architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He graduated with honors and his thesis was selected and published by Archiprix International Competition. Additionally, he went on an exchange program to Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogotá, and he has recently done a specialization course in Ecosystemic services, urban forests, and natural capital at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

 During his studies, Juan has been interested in the role of architecture and urbanism as a tool of collaboration between disciplines with a key agency in environmental and social conditions. He volunteered for 4 years in Construye Identidad and Brigadas en Frontera, initiatives where he collaborated within the construction of sustainable educational and sanitary infrastructure in the Peruvian Amazon Region. Moreover, he has been part of international urban workshops at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland, and he has done practices at different architecture offices in Lima, Bogotá, and Madrid.

 After his graduation, he worked with the Peruvian Government in the design of a Bioclimatic emergency kit of prefabricated schools that are currently being implemented across the country. In the last two years, he has worked as a local coordinator with the French Development Agency and Transitec in the definition of urban studies and strategies to improve the mobility of Cusco and, in the Municipality of Lima, he has led the design of public space projects that involves built and landscape heritage regeneration and sustainable mobility development.

 At Harvard, he is interested in exploring interdisciplinary design processes intersecting urban history, mobility infrastructure, landscape resilience, and social inequalities of urban environments to promote transversal environmental and urban transformations through local interventions.



 

 

 





 

 

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