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Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and political scientist based in Paris, currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Her academic research focuses on maintenance practices in architecture and urbanism, particularly within the field of social housing. She studies the processes of demolition and transformation in housing estates across European cities, aiming to understand how maintenance can support sustainable and equitable urban futures.

Rocío is a co-founding partner of docar, a documentary film collective dedicated to narrating urban and architectural controversies. Her filmmaking practice centers on European social housing, demolition, maintenance, and housing rights. Her films have been presented at institutions such as the Venice Architecture BiennaleMAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Royal Academy of London.

Her professional work as an urbanist explores maintenance at both the building and urban scales. She collaborates with municipalities, social landlords, and urbanists to design architecture and urban maintenance protocols that can foster long-term sustainability and social innovation. Since 2023, she has been involved in a consultancy project with the Ville de Paris and Paris Habitat, developing new housing maintenance strategies for the city.

Rocío holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a Master's in the Politics of Ecology from Sciences Po Paris. She has worked in international architecture offices such as MVRDV(Rotterdam), MQ Architecture (New York), Tsukamoto Lab (Tokyo), Ezquiaga Arquitectura (Madrid), and l’AUC (Paris).

Her academic work has been presented in forums such as Panel 21 at the United Nations’ World Urban Forum and published in journals including the European Journal of Spatial Development and the European Network for Housing Research. She is also a fellow of the Palladio Foundation and the LINA community, and a local collaborator of HouseEurope!






European Journal of Spatial Development / Eflux / TRACES 

European Network of Housing Research,  World Urban Forum

Exhibitions
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2025, MAXXI Museum, BINA Belgrade

LATESTS NEWS

June 2025 

City voices debate at the Royal Academy of London.

Round table around the film The Great Together with  Marko Milovanovic


May 2025

Maintenance and demolition. A political taxonomy of Grands Ensembles.

Presentation of Le soin de l'architecture, which is at the same time a phd, a research for The Ville des Paris and a film. This study explores the relation between architecture and politics by observing how the different microdevices of large housing estates can influence political decision making processes. 

Cycle de Séminaires.  (Re) Sources Communes Extraire la Ville. Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval and Khristian Ceballos-Ugarte
Ecole Speciale d’Architecture. Paris
May 2025

The Great Together film, produced by docar.  at the Venice Biennale, part of the Collective Inteligens exhibition, curated by Carlo Ratti. 
Corderie Arsenale. Venice