Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is a Mexican architect, critical theorist and urban planner. He is a professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico and a visiting professor at universities in North America, Europe and Asia.
Academic Background and Career
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera was trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, earned a Masters degree in Urban Planning by the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and completed a PhD in Urbanism at UNAM, Mexico, and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism in Paris.A consultant on urban revitalization strategies to the, his work has been funded by several international institutions and organizations and has published extensively on urban issues.
Professor Valenzuela was named a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellow and selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Social Innovators in 2010. He was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and for three years a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, at the University of California at Berkeley. Later he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University, the Technical University of Athens, and the .
In 2004 he was appointed the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and a visiting professor at the, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Calgary, Rice University, the University of Buenos Aires. Also, he was appointed the John Bousfield Distinguished Visiting Professor in Planning at the University of Toronto, the Edmundo O'Gorman Visiting Professor at Columbia University in 2022, a Visiting Scholar at the 2024-2025 and at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2025.