Rocio Calzado

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Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and social scientist based in Paris, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the civil engineering school of Paris - Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussées .

Rocio is founder partner of the documentary film collective docar. Her film making practice focuses on European Social Housing, demolition, maintenance and housing rights.

Her professional work as an urbanist focuses on exploring maintenance practices both at a building and at an urban scale. Her practice involves collaboration with urbanist, land developers and municipalities designing urban and architecture maintenance protocols that can foster social innovation initiatives.

Her academic research on architecture maintenance is applied to the field of social housing and developed through the study of demolition and transformation social housing cases in European cities. Rocio holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a master’s in politics of Ecology at Sciences Po Paris.

Rocio’s film work has been presented in different institutions such as the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the MAXXI Museum of Rome, or the European Network for Housing Research.
Her academic work has been presented at the Pannel 21 at the World Urban Forum and the European Journal of Spatial Development.

Since 2023 she has been part of the Lina community and an active collaborator of the ECI HouseEurope! She has experience as an urbanist in different architecture offices such as MVRDV in Rotterdam, MQ Architecture in New York, the Tsukamoto Lab in Tokyo, Ezquiaga in Madrid, and l’AUC in Paris. Currently, she teaches at different architecture universities and is part of the Technics, Regional Planning and Society Research Centre Laboratory (LATTS).