Alejandro
Haiek Coll
Affiliate researcher at RISE – Research institute of Sweden.
PhD. Candidate at Universitá di Genova.
Magister Scientiarum honorific mention in Architectural Design at the Central University of Venezuela (2001).
Haiek Coll is currently Lecturer and MA Studio leader at Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden and Erasmus scholarship professor at the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and invited professor in the X-Urban Design Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya.
alejandro.haiek@umu.se
Research
His research examines collective landscapes, post-industrial ecologies and network governability politics. His projects has been developed in an intersection between design, arts and engineering integrating scientific advances and local traditions as a sustainable approach to human, environmental and material resources.
Practice
Haiek’s innovative practice, based on social reengineering projects, have been awarded globally obtaining the International Award for Public Art 2013 in Shanghai, 1st Prize at the International Festival of Architecture of Barcelona EME3 2012, 1st Prize for three categories at Quito XX Pan-American Biennale: Architectural Design, Urban Design and Recycling & Rehabilitation, 2016, commended at the Architectural Review Housing Awards 2017 and, recently, the WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize for 2019.
Studio
His studio Lab.Pro.Fab (laboratory of applied science and experimental art) was also declared New Talent in Metropolis Magazine by MoMA curator Martino Stierli 2015 and nominated by the MCHAP for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016 and for Emerging Architecture in 2018. He was recently nominated for the Royal Academy Dorfman Award London 2018, the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture and the Ibero-American Architecture and Urban Planning Biennale (BIAU).
Exhibitions
His work has been exhibited at the XV Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016, Santiago Biennale, Costa Rica Biennale, Buenos Aires Biennale, the New International Cultural Center in Antwerp, FreshLatino 02 at Cervantes Institutes and at The New Latin American Architecture at Pratt Institute NY.
Invited Artist
He exhibited as invited artist in Tokyo University of the Arts Japan and LIGA Space for Architecture supported by Graham Foundation, Mexico. He was selected Artist in residency at Elam Fine School of Arts Auckland University 2014, at Monash University in Melbourne 2016, and at JACA Art and Technology Center in Brazil.
Manifesto
His manifesto The Public Machinery Principles declares architecture as a logistic change of events that eventually would transform into a complex environmental apparatus. The statement also declares phrases like First of all we are citizens, Building relationships not just infrastructure, production for masses – not anymore mass productions or More programming less constructions, postulating a conscious and mindful return to industrialization, leading his ideas for a Fast assembling slow Architecture.
Rebecca Rudolph
Lab.Pro.Fab Researcher
Project Coordinator