• Faculty

  • Alonso Ortega

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    ortegaa1@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

    Download vCard

    Alonso Ortega

    Profile

    Alonso L Ortega He/Him is an emerging transdisciplinary architectural designer + artist + educator + researcher based in New York. The focus of his work is on the investigation of materiality as political, the influence of digital processes on design language, and the disciplines adaptability to respond to diverse circumstances, scales, and frameworks. Ortega has held teaching roles as an Associate Faculty Member at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, where he fostered an experimental and exploratory environment that addressed contemporary challenges of spatial justice, equity, and coloniality. Ortega currently works with Mario Gooden Studio as a Junior Architect in which he leads and manages projects while addressing and engaging in the cultural landscape and intersectionality of architecture, race, gender, sexuality, and technology. Ortega completed an advanced graduate degree in architecture from Columbia University and a B.Arch. from Iowa State University. It is Ortega’s ongoing commitment to pushing the boundaries of architecture and its practice by pursuing curiosity, questioning convention, and navigating problem-solving in a creative manner that continues to add value to the profession.

    Portfolio

    Portfolio

    Current Courses

    Digital & Physical Modelmaking
    PSCE 2100, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Materiality & Assembly
    PUID 2030, Spring 2024

  • Take The Next Step

Submit your application

Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.