He holds a doctor of design degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he was a fellow of the Energy Consortium at the Center for the Environment and editor of the doctoral design journal New Geographies from 2013 to 2018. He completed his doctoral dissertation “Synthetic Ecologies: Design and the Ecological Imagination” under the supervision of Charles Waldheim, Gareth Doherty, and Alexander Wall at the Department of Landscape Architecture in 2021. He also holds two master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–one in urban planning and another in science of architectural studies with a certificate in urban design. He earned his bachelor's degree in architecture and urban planning from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2006 where he graduated top of his class.
He is currently a fellow of the National System of Art Creators for the National Fund for Arts and Culture, a researcher and associate professor at Mexico’s National Autonomous University’s School of Architecture, and an editorial boaed member of the Faculty of Architecture and at Arquine publishers.
As an academic tutor of the National University’s Program on Sustainability Science and a member of the Sustainable Environments Lab, his research interests have included nature-based climate change adaptation solutions for cities and regions, post-carbon futures, energy transition districts, regional metabolism and circular economies, and urban soil regeneration. He has supervised over 50 theses at bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs.
He has extensive experience in design having participated in almost 40 architectural, urban, and landscape design projects around the world including restoration plans for the Thane river estuary in Mumbai, the Nervión river riparian corridor in Bilbao, a net zero energy district in Beijing, and a plan for the recovery of the Texcoco lake bed in Mexico City.
He has written more than 100 essays on design, architecture, and cities in national and international peer-reviewed publications such as Thresholds (MIT), New Geographies (GSD), Lunch (University of Virginia), Domus, Bitácora, and Arquine. He has been a guest juror at numerous schools in America and Europe and has taught at MIT, Harvard, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, the UIA, ITESM, Centro, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Before pursuing his graduate studies, he worked as a junior designer in the offices of TEN Arquitectos (Enrique Norten), arquitectura911 (Saide Springal and Jose Castillo), and FREE (Fernando Romero) and as Head of Departmental Unit in the Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing of the Government of Mexico City. From 2005 to 2006, he received a scholarship from FONCA's Jóvenes Creadores program.