Teaching

While research drives development, teaching drives research.

For a decade I have taught architecture, civil engineering, graduate and continuing education students. I see my role as helping students build their own knowledge with curiosity and confidence, and understand technology not as an end in itself but as a decision that must respond to the project, the place, and the people involved. During my experience, I have learned to work under the following general principles:

Learning from real buildings

Construction is best understood where it happens. Site visits, immersive environments such as the CAVE, and the campus itself as a living laboratory bring real building processes into the classroom. Digital tools are taught alongside the questions that make them meaningful: why this technology, for this project, in this place. Students learn to integrate technical systems and to make critical, ethical decisions about the tools and data they use.

Architecture students at construction site visit visualizing stereo panorama renderings to compare design and construction. 2019.

Civil Engineering students at Cave Automatic Virtual Environment presenting their final work and visualizing their BIM models. 2018.

Structural mock-ups of Javeriana campus buildings. 2026.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Professional work requires working with diverse professionals, with whom it will be necessary to carry out a project. Architecture and engineering students work together on shared problems, as they will in professional practice, developing the collaboration skills that interdisciplinary project teams require.