Daniel Ibañez

Position

Lecturer

Qualifications

Doctor of Design candidate at Harvard University
Architect and urbanist

Biography

Daniel Ibáñez is a practising architect and urbanist. He is Doctor of Design candidate and instructor at Harvard University. His research into metabolic urbanism seeks to frame design disciplines in relation to broader socioecological interdependencies through cross-disciplinary research in the field of urban metabolism. As part of his doctoral efforts, Daniel has organised conferences on “Projective Views on Urban Metabolism” and “Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial”. He is coeditor-in-chief of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism and coeditor of Thermodynamics Applied to High-Rise and Mix-Use Prototypes and Third Coast Atlas, as well as the founder and codirector of the design firm Margen-Lab, with headquarters in Boston and Barcelona. At Harvard, he is research manager at the Urban Theory Lab GSD and a member of the editorial board of the New Geographies journal. In addition, he recently became visiting professor at FADEU-UC in Chile as part of