Alan Rios
with Guillermo Acosta and Alejandra Avalos as WASA
Alan Ríos-Cruz was born and grew up in Mexico. He graduated in 2015 from ITESM-CCM (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) in Mexico City, and worked as an assistant designer at the furniture and interior design company BLANGKAZ.
He co-founded the art and architecture collective WASA MX, with the aim of creating a dialogue between societal problems and architecture through the intermediary of its users. Among its projects are ‘EIEI’ (2017, ITESM), ‘The Machine is Broken!’ (2018, MAK Center Los Angeles) and ‘Tapetito Tapetote’ (2018, ARQUINE).
EDUCATION
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Architecture
Mexico City, Mexico
INHA University, Architecture
Incheon, South Korea
JURY
Architecture, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, Mexico
Architecture, INHA University, Incheon, South Korea