Rozana Montiel is founder and director of the Mexico-based architectural firm Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura. She is specialises in architectural design, artistic re-conceptualizations of space, and the public domain. The studio works on a wide variety of projects in different scales and layers that range from the city to the book, to artefact and other micro-objects. She was recently invited as the only Mexican architectural firm to participate to exhibit in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara under the theme Freespace. She was also selected as one of four emerging-practice finalists for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) granted by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture.

The event will be followed by a Q&A session.

Rozana speaks as part of NEWNOWNEXT, a series of public talks about NEW Ideas, regarding contemporary issues relevant NOW that can impact the NEXT generation. Before Rozana comes to Cork, hear from Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj in Dublin 0n 26 April and Bjarke Ingels / BIG in Dublin on 2 May. NEWNOWNEXT is curated by the Irish Architecture Foundation and sponsored by Arup.

FREE event, booking is essential.