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!
De Porte à Porte
Towards a Political Analysis of Housing Estates // Sociotechnical analysis on the transformation of Corviale Housing Estate
Spaces in motion // Hybrid collectivities for a nomadic practice