Dr Irene Perez Lopez

Senior Lecturer

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Email:irene.perezlopez@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 4921 6608

Career Summary

Biography

Irene Perez Lopez is Doctor in Architecture and Critics by theSchool of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM-UPM. Her PhD explore the limit between the city and the building fabric, analyzing big scale architecture and urban projects in the limit between scales and disciplines.

Irene ran her own practice focus on the development of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture projects. She had collaborated with other design practices in Spain, United Kingdom and USA, in the development of consultancies and projects at different scales from master plans to details, on an international domain.

She worked in Chile as director of TerritorioMayor (2013-14), the Centre for Urban Studies at the Mayor University, on the development of consultancies and design-led research regarding to sustainable urban city planning, landscape and territory.

Irene is President and co-founder of the Pan-American Observatory of Landscape, Territory and Architecture OPPTA, a non-profit international organization focused on the protection, restoration, recovery and reconstruction of urban and rural environments with a special focus on sustainable design and planning and the implementation of Resilience cities and societies.

She is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. Previously, she has been teaching at the Bío Bío University and Mayor University in Chile and Salamanca University and the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid ETSAM-UPM, both in Spain.

Keywords

architecture and urban design, resilience
architecture design
resilience and sustainability
urban design

Languages

Spanish (Mother)
English (Fluent)
German (Working)

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
330411	Urban design	100

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department
Senior Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Architecture and Built Environment Australia
Senior Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Architecture and Built Environment Australia

Academic appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/6/2014 - 1/6/2016	Senior Lecturer	Universidad del Bio Bio Urban Design and Planning Chile
15/4/2013 - 15/5/2014	Director and Head of Research	Universidad Mayor de Chile Centre of Urban Studies Chile
1/1/2012 - 31/12/2012	Guest Lecturer	Universidad de Salamanca Master of Architecture and Interior Design Spain
1/6/2006 - 1/6/2008	Research Assistant	Polytechnic University of Madrid, School of Architecture Unit Federico Soriano Spain

Professional appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/3/2017 - 31/10/2018	Senior Landscape Architect	Grant Associates United Kingdom
1/2/2011 - 31/3/2013	Director and Head of Research	Observatorio Panamericano de Paisaje Territorio y Arquitectura OPPTA Spain
5/5/2005 - 31/12/2010	Director	Local Landscape Architecture and Design Spain

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2016	Zazo Moratalla A, Alvarez A, Perez Lopez I, Varela Martinez C, Cambio Climático. Lecciones de y para ciudades de America Latina. Proyecto ARA: Plan estratégico municipal integral para la incorporación de medidas de adaptación al Cambio Climático en Chimalhuacán (Mexico), University of Externado, Bogota, Colombia, 38 (2016)

Chapter (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2016	Zazo Moratalla A, Alvarez A, Perez Lopez I, Varela Martinez C, 'Proyecto ARA: Plan estratégico municipal integral para la incorporación de medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en Chimalhuacán', Cambio climático: lecciones de y para ciudades de américa latina, U. Externado de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia 699-736 (2016)

Journal article (5 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2016

López IP, Martínez MDCV, 'Oppta Methodology for Intervention in Areas Affected by Risk in Latin America', Procedia Engineering, 161 1893-1898 (2016)

DOI	10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.746

2015

Perez Lopez I, 'Radicales Libres. Estrategias proyectuales y docentes de gran escala en las escuelas de arquitectura asociadas a los movimientos visionarios de 1960-1970', Revista Arquitecturas del Sur, 33 80-93 (2015)

2015

Perez Lopez I, 'Radicales Libres. Estrategias proyectuales y docentes de gran escala en las escuelas de arquitectura asociadas a los movimientos visionarios de 1960-1970', Arquitecturas del Sur, 33 80-93 (2015)

2015

Perez Lopez I, 'Hacia una arquitectura y un urbanismo infraestructural', Revista Urbano, 32 26-37 (2015)

2011

Perez Lopez I, Barrero Perez L, 'Donde tiritan todos los semáforos', Fisuras de la Arquitectura Contemporanea, 17 62-69 (2011)

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Conference (5 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2020	Perez Lopez I, Maldonado Rios A, 'Strategic Urban Plan for the Araucania Region (Chile): The environmental awareness of the Community.', PLEA 2017 Proceeding, Edimburgh (2020)
2020	Perez Lopez I, 'New perspectives for design in the urbanized delta: Living with water in Newcastle s threshold between land and water', WSBE 20 - World Sustainable Built Environment - Beyond2020, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020) [E1]
2020	Perez Lopez I, 'Research methods and design strategies to improve resilience in coastal and estuary cities', Research methods and design strategies to improve resilience in coastal and estuary cities, San Francisco, USA (2020)
2016	Perez Lopez I, 'Resilencia Urbana: Ideas para una Metodologia de Rehabilitacón Integral en áreas vulnerables de America Latina', Medellín, Colombia (2016)
2014	Pérez López I, Varela Martínez C, Zazo Moratalla A, 'Paisajes para la emergencia en cinco emplazamientos de América Latina', 51st World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, IFLA 2014 (2014)
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