Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina of salazarsequeromedina

Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina founded design studio salazarsequeromedina in 2020. The collaborative practice focuses on civic work that engages creatively with both building processes and the contemporary built environment. Often constructed with repurposed materials, salazarsequeromedina’s “open-ended structures,” as the firm describes their projects, are realized through dialogue with environmental context in concert with community programming and use. The firm has produced architectural installations, speculative interventions, and built work for sites and platforms in Peru, South Korea, Spain, and the United states.

Recent projects include:

• A Greenhouse for Plants and Humans Located in the Peruvian town of El Carmen, this project transforms agricultural waste products into twinned spaces for plants and humans: a greenhouse and open-air pavilion.
• The Outdoor Room, with Frank Barkow, A pavilion for the 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, this structure built from repurposed materials reframes its installation site in Songhyeon Green Plaza—once an ancient pine forest and later occupied by the U.S. military—to create an intimate public garden.
• Sobremesas, with Leggett & Cahuas, Designed as an installation for the 13th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Lima, Peru, this elongated modular table and canopy structure was donated to communal kitchens in Lima for continued use following the biennial.

Laura Salazar holds a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Wellesley College and an MArch from Princeton University. She is currently an assistant professor at Pratt School of Architecture and, with Pablo Sequero, a recipient of a 2024 Independent Projects Grant for the project In Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings.

Pablo Sequero holds a Dipl Ing and MArch from ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is currently a visiting critic at Syracuse University School of Architecture.

Juan Medina holds a master’s degree in Research in Design and Theory of Architecture, a Dipl Ing, and an MArch from ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is a professor of practice at Tulane University School of Architecture, where he received the Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2023.

In addition to participating in the exhibitions above, salazarsequeromedina’s work has been listed in the Neighborhood Index of The Oslo Triennale. The firm’s installations for the Biennale d’architecture et de paysage d’Île de France in Versailles, France and Concentrico International Festival of Architecture and Design in Logroño, Spain are forthcoming this summer.

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