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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).






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Public presentations

2025, January. House Europe launch event. Roundtable together with Lacaton Vassal, l’AUC and Paris Habitat.

2024, November. ENSA Saint Etienne. Crossroads 2024.

2024, October. Ensa Paris Est. Research Seminar. Title: Au-delà de la démolition. Invited by Eric Alonzo
2024, October. ENSA Paris Malaquais. Séminaire THP - "Le soin de l'architecture. Habitat social et crise climatique", With Fanny Lopez and Marie Artuphel.
2024, October. Image de Ville. Marseille. Chamber of architects. Round table: Architects and filmmakers, what type of alliances?

2024, October. Lina Annual Conference in Sarajevo. Theme: Transmitting the city and modern anomalies.

2024, July. AESOP Conference. Presentation of the research project ‘Reframing sustainable transformation of social housing Insights from France and Italy’, together with PhD. Federica Rotondo.

2024, July. Chair at the AESOP Conference held in Paris. Track 12. Futuring and planning.

2024, May. MUCEM Marseille. FOCUS. Presentation of film project in the documentary track.
2024, April. Lectures on Framing Renovation. Faculty of Architecture UL, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Organised by Lina Community and E Flux2023, December, Séminaire de recherche ENSAPLV  « Révéler des territoires - Exploration et production de savoirs ».  At the Villette School of Architecture with a response to the conference by Djamel Klouche.

2023, September. 6th Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing. A Political Anatomy of Housing Estates. Organised by the research center of New Social Housing, coorganised with the TU WIEN, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

2023, June. ARQ Guadalajara. Gobernando la utopía en las afueras de Roma. Imparte: Mtra. Rocío Calzado
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2023, March. Roma Tre. Dialoghi sull'abitare a cura di Milena Farina si svolgerà la conferenza di Rocio Calzado Lopez
Conference

2023, March. Intituto Svizzero di Roma. Architecture, Politics, and the Case of Corviale. Together with Professor Marco Cremaschi.  Organised by Roma Calling fellow Giorgio Azzariti
2023, March. Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Rome. Recycling Utopia. The Role of Housing Estates in Europe’s Ecological Transition. Course by Viviana Andriola and Serena Muccitelli

2022, September. European Housing Research Network. ENHR Barcelona 2022. Corviale according to its own logics. Invited by Zaida Muxi and Josep María Montaner

2022, June. UN-Habitat. 11th session of the World Urban Forum. Katowice.  Panel with members of the UN (Katja Schäfer) France Urbaine (Delphine BOURDIN ), Mannheim city hall (Peter Kurtz) Magdalena Piorun, and the EU commission (Thomas de Béthune). Comparative Analysis on Urban Agendas.
Organised by the FNAU and Sciences Po Paris.

2022, June. Architecture and Landscape. BAP! Biennale of Versailles 2022. Terroir vs Territory. Round table with Niklas Fanelsa, Louise Morin, Emeric Lambert and Simon Teyssou. Moderated by Rocio Calzado. Auditorium de la Forge ENSA Versailles
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2021 Camacol Colombia. Pannel shared with the former minister of environment and housing of Colombia, Juan Lozano and the Vice President of Bancolombia, Luis Ignacio Gómez Moncada.

European Network of Housing Research,  World Urban Forum