Rene Peralta, USA

Keynote Lecturer

Rene is a Lecturer in the Art and Design program at San Diego State University. He is co-author, with the anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo and writer Heriberto Yepez, of the book Here is Tijuana, Black Dog Publishing, London 2006. From 2012-2014 was the Director of the Master of Science in Architecture with emphasis on Landscape + Urbanism at Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego, CA.

In 2015, his work on PREVI in Lima, Peru along with his graduate students from Woodbury University was part of the exhibit; Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Currently, he forms part of Hyperloop West one of the 11 U.S. semifinalist teams developing a Hyperloop transportation route from Los Angeles, California to Ensenada, Mexico. Rene is the curator for the San Diego / Tijuana pavilion at the 2017 Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale.