Romina Canna

Romina Canna is an Assistant Professor and the Design Studio Sequence Coordinator in the Bachelor in Architecture Studies at the School of Architecture and Design at IE University. Since 2013 she is also the Director of the school’s d-Lab (Design Laboratory). The d-Lab explores the relationship between academic production and public institutions for the realization of projects aimed to revitalize the urban environment. Since its beginning the lab has been involved in several projects with a large list of institutions such as City Councils, NGOs, and civic organizations addressing pressing issues of our times such as social infrastructures in contexts affected by depopulation and community engagement through urban equipment among others.

She holds an International Ph.D. in Urbanism from the Barcelona Superior Technical Architecture School (ETSAB) of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) in Spain, and an Architecture degree from the National University (UNR) in Argentina. She received the UPC Extraordinary Doctoral Prize for her dissertation “Expressway Ends: Construction and Evolution of Urban Highways in the United States – 1900-1967”. As an academic, her research has been published in many scholarly journals such as Architecture and Culture, Arqa, Registros, and Identidades among others, and lately, in the book Infrastructure Designs: Global Perspectives from Architectural History from Routledge.

Prior to joining IE University, she has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago at Graduate and Undergraduate Levels and at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in her native Argentina. Since 2015, she is a Visiting Professor at the Superior Technical Architecture School of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) She has also been invited as a guest professor, guest critic, and lecturer in several universities in Europe and the United States.

Before devoting her work to academia, she developed a wide professional experience in Argentina, Spain, and in the United States. She has worked in the offices of Lohan Anderson Architects, in Chicago, USA; CCRS Architects, and Xavier Montsalvatge, in Barcelona, Spain; and KMBR and Associates in her native Rosario, Argentina developing projects at a diversity of scales that ranged from objects and residential to high rises and new urban developments.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor at IE University, 2017 – Present

• Adjunct Professor at IE University, 2011 – 2017

• Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology 2006 – 2011

• Adjunct Professor at Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario 1997 – 2001

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• International PhD in Urbanism with Honors from the Barcelona Superior Technical Architecture School (ETSAB) of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya

• Architecture Diploma Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Canna, R. (2021). “Parallel Lines: Building a History of Urban Expressways in the United States”. In Heathcott, J. (Eds.). In Infrastructure Designs: Global Perspectives from Architectural History. Routledge

• Canna, R. (2020). “Exhibition at the Rome National Gallery of Modern Art”. In Chinchilla, I. (Eds.) Catalogue of “Cosmowomen”

• Canna, R., Elias, J. (2019). “De-metropolizing the Territory Memory montage as a Strategy for Recovering the Identities of the North Industrial Corridor of Rosario”. Registros. Revista de Investigación Histórica, Vol. 15 (1)