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 Biennale, MAXXI 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!
Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and urban planner based in Paris, currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Ecole des Ponts of ParisTech. Rocio is part of the documentary film collective docar. , laureates of the FAIRE program of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris for producing the film ‘de porte à porte’.
Her professional and academic work 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. 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 ENSA Paris Est and is part of the Technics, Regional Planning and Society Research Centre Laboratory (LATTS). Rocio’s work has been published in different specialised magazines. Since 2023 she has been part of the Lina community and has participated as a speaker in different international conferences and congresses such as the European Network for Housing Research, Pannel 21 at the World Urban Forum 11, MUCEM Focus or TU Delft Atlantis Magazine.