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Mauricio Soto-Rubio is an assistant professor of architecture at the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, where he teaches comprehensive building design studios, structures, and seminars related with lightweight and membrane structures. He is a founding partner of the Lightweight Structures Research Unit (LSRU) at the University of Calgary as well as the Studio for Lightweight Design, a multidisciplinary firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and installation of lightweight, membrane and deployable structures.
Mauricio graduated with honors with a Professional Degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela in 1999. He also completed a Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan in 2003, where he was awarded the 2001 Alumni Society Award.
Before joining the University of Calgary, Mauricio worked in several architecture offices and construction companies in the US, England, Germany and Switzerland. He was involved in the design of the Norway Pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai (Helen & Hard), the deployable umbrellas for the Medina Mosque in Saudi Arabia (SL-Rasch) and the Spiky Pod inside the Queen Mary Hospital in London (Alsop and Partners/Architen Landrell). Mauricio Soto-Rubio also taught architectural design, building technologies and materials at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and at the TU in Vienna in Austria.
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Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca