> Diego Barajas
Diego Barajas (Bogotá, Colombia) holds a PhD in Architecture from ETSAM in Madrid where he completed his doctorate in 2016 with a thesis entitled «Productive Housing: Battlefields» (Cum Laude). In his professional work he establishes a permanent dialogue between research and design, theory and practice. Since 2003, he has co-directed the architecture, gardening, and urbanism studio Husos arquitecturas with Camilo Garcia. The studio aims to explore various approaches to address the urgent issue of climate change. Based in Madrid, Husos operates regularly between Spain and Colombia.

Diego holds a Master's degree from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and studied architecture at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has taught at the European University of Madrid, the IE University School of Architecture and the Rotterdam Academy, among other institutions. He is the author of Dispersion, a Study of Global Mobility and the Dynamics of a Fictional Urbanism (Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002). The book has been included in the permanent collection of the Rotterdam Museum of History and the FRAC Centre in Orleans. Together with Camilo García, he is the author of the book Urbanisms of Remittances, (Re)productive houses in Dispersion (Caniche Editorial, Madrid, 2017).

This book was awarded by ArtsLibris Fundació Sabadell in 2019 and is currently part of the permanent art collection of the Fundació Banc Sabadell in Barcelona.

His projects and texts have been published in various magazines and books, including Futuros mejores and Más allá de lo Humano by Bartlebooth publishers, Harvard Design Magazine, Volume magazine, 2G Dossier, Abitare, Arquitectura Viva, Domus, Plot, ED, Revista Arquitectos, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Space Craft, Summa+, Hunch, Avivre, and Project Russia. He has given lectures at various universities and institutions, such as Floating University in Berlin, Columbia University in New York, KTH and Konstfack in Stockholm, Quito Biennial, Lund University, Central Society of Architects in Buenos Aires, Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Bucharest, Escola de Cidade in Sao Paulo, University of Cape Town, Recyclart Brussels, Taller Danza in Montevideo, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, COAM Madrid, Universidad San Buenaventura in Cali, Universidad Gabriela Mistral in Santiago, FUMEC in Belo Horizonte, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Archilab in Orleans, Europan in Hamburg, University of Sheffield, UBA in Buenos Aires and the University of Manchester.