Silvina Lopez Barrera
Title:
- Associate Professor
Contacts:
slopezbarrera@caad.msstate.edu
Office: (662) 325-2507
240 Giles Hall
91自拍
Summary:
Silvina Lopez Barrera is an Associate Professor in the School of 91自拍 at Mississippi State University. She is a licensed Architect in Uruguay, LEED-AP accredited, and holds a Master of 91自拍 degree from Iowa State University. Her research focuses on how socio-spatial inequalities influence informal housing, housing insecurity, and community resilience in the US and in Latin America. Prof. Lopez Barrera鈥檚 field work methods incorporate oral histories and participatory processes to engage with disadvantaged communities. Her research has been published in several academic journals including Local Development and Society and Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. She has published book chapters in Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions (ed.by G. Marinic and P. Meninato) and in Public Space/Contested Space: Imagination and Occupation (ed.by K.D. Murphy and S. O鈥橠riscoll). Prior to joining the faculty at Mississippi State University, Lopez Barrera was faculty member at Iowa State University and Middlebury College. She is member of the Uruguayan Society of Architects and International Associate member of the American Institute of Architects. Lopez Barrera currently serves in the AIA National Associates Committee as the AIA Mississippi State Associate Representative.
Selected Publications:
鈥淯nderstanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American Informal Settlements.鈥 Silvina Lopez Barrera. In Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions edited by Gregory Marinic and Pablo Meninato, Springer, 2022
"Centro Cultural Movil: Critical Service Learning and Design with Latinx Farmworkers", Silvina Lopez Barrera and Erin Sassin. In Public Space/Contested Space: Imagination and Occupation edited by Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O鈥橠riscoll, Routledge, 2021
"Community resilience, governance, and [in]justice in the context of informal housing after an F3 tornado", Diego Thompson and Silvina Lopez Barrera. Local Development and Society, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/26883597.2022.2082881
"Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi", Silvina Lopez Barrera and Diego Thompson. Proceedings of the ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference, 2022.
鈥淓mmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project,鈥 Silvina Lopez Barrera, John Ross and Simon Powney. Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), 109th Annual Meeting, 2021.
鈥淐ommunity Resilience and Self-Help Housing After a Natural Disaster: A Case-Study from Southwestern Uruguay,鈥 Silvina Lopez Barrera and Diego Thompson. Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), International Conference, 2021.
鈥淐ommunity Resilience and Collective Agency Under Significant Changes in the Natural and Built Environment: A Community Capitals Framework Approach鈥 Diego Thompson and Silvina Lopez Barrera. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 2019, ISSN: 13549839, DOI:10.1080/13549839.2019.1683723
鈥淏uilding Collaborative Governance and Community Resilience under Socio-spatial Rural Disparities and Environmental Challenges鈥, Diego Thompson and Silvina Lopez Barrera. Community Development Practice, Fall 2019, Issue 23. https://www.comm-dev.org/professional-development/cds-practice
鈥淭he Right to the City in Informal Settlements: Case Studies of Post-Disaster Adaptation in Latin America.鈥 Silvina Lopez Barrera, and Diego Thompson. Proceedings of the ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference, 2019, ISBN 978-0-578-51124-5
鈥淓xploring Spatial Justice Challenges in Rural Mississippi鈥, Silvina Lopez Barrera. Proceedings of the ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference, 2018, ISBN 1-935129-24-4.
鈥淩epresentations of Spatial Transformations: Informal Settlements and Industrial Agriculture Growth in Mercedes (Uruguay)鈥, Silvina Lopez Barrera, Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extra-urban Studies, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2013, ISSN 2154-8676.
Education:
- Master of 91自拍 (M.Arch.), 91自拍, Iowa State University, 2010
- Bachelor of 91自拍, 91自拍, Universidad de la Republica, 2008
Publications
Book, Chapter
- Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American Informal Settlements. Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions . Ed. Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic. Springer. 2022
- Centro Cultural Movil: Critical Service Learning and Design with Latinx Farmworkers. Public Space/Contested Space: Imagination and Occupation. Ed. Sally O鈥橠riscoll and Kevin D. Murphy. Routledge. 2021
Conference Paper
- . 聽Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023. 2023
- The Architectural Typologies of Latinx Housing Precarity. 聽Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), 110th Annual Meeting. 2023
- The Unknowing of Outcome: The Exploration of Components and Structural Form in 91自拍 Foundations Studios. 聽Proceedings of the Building Technology Educator鈥檚 Society Conference. 2023
- . 聽 Proceedings of the 28th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). Volume 2, Pages 39-48. 2023
- . 聽The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design In Asia. Volume 2, Issue 28, Pages 39-48. 2023
- . 聽Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA). 2021
Conference Proceeding
- Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi. 聽Proceedings of the ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2022. 2022
- Community Resilience and Self-Help Housing After a Natural Disaster: A Case-Study from Southwestern Uruguay. 聽Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), International Conference 2021. 2021
- Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project. 聽Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), 109th Annual Meeting. 2021
- The Right to the City in Informal Settlements: Case Studies of Post-Disaster Adaptation in Latin America . 聽Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2019. 2019
Conference poster
- .聽Proceedings of the 2023 Building Technology Educators鈥 Society Conference. 2023
Journal Article
- Community resilience, governance, and [in]justice in the context of informal housing after an F3 tornado.聽Local Development and Society. 2022
- Building Collaborative Governance and Community Resilience under Socio-spatial Rural Disparities and Environmental Challenges .聽Community Development Practice. Volume Fall 2019, Issue Issue 23. 2019
- Community resilience and collective agency under significant changes in the natural and built environment: a community capitals framework approach .聽Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability . Volume 24, Issue 12. 2019
Published Abstract
- Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy in Architectural Education.聽2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference 2019. 2019
Presentations
Abstract
- "Participatory Design Using Emergent Technologies in Small-towns in Mississippi." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2019 , Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Denver, CO. 2019
- "Resilience and Collective Mobilization in Two Communities of Uruguay: A Community Capitals Framework Approach ." 2019 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Justice and Tyranny: Mobilizing Rural Sociological Imaginations, Rural Sociological Society, Richmond, VA. 2019
- "Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy in Architectural Education ." 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, Practice of Teaching | Teaching of Practice, ACSA/EAAE, University of Antwerp, Belgium. 2019
- "Addressing Housing Inequality through Affordable Housing in Small-Towns in Mississippi." Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) International Conference, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Toronto, Canada. 2019
- "Housing Inequality and Affordable Housing in Vulnerable Communities in Rural Mississippi ." 49th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Urban Affairs Association, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). 2019
- "Exploring a Socio-Structural Approach to Examine Community Resilience: Two Case Studies from Rural Uruguay." 50th Annual Meeting of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association, Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association, Mississippi State University. 2019
Lecture
- "The Right to Housing in the Americas." 2023-24 Lecture Series: New South meets Global South, University of North Carolina Charlotte, School of 91自拍., Charlotte, NC. 2023
- "Community Engaged Learning Course Design." Center for Community-Engaged Learning Fellows Session, Mississippi State University, Center for Community-Engaged Learning (CEL), Mississippi State, MS. 2023
- "Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi." Course: The Paradox of Hunger 鈥 Rural Mississippi, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, . 2022
- "91自拍 and Communities." The 91自拍 Society Lecture Series, El Paso Community College Community and , El Paso, TX. 2022
Oral Presentation
- "Nurturing Required: Sustainable Partnerships." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Engagement Scholarship Consortium , Michigan State University . 2023
- "In the Details: Building A Community-Engaged Learning Course." Engaged Scholarship Consortium, Engaged Scholarship Consortium, Athens, Georgia.. 2022
- "Activism in the Face of Economic and Housing Insecurity." Evicted: an exhibition , Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, Jackson State University. 2021
Other
- "Fostering Academic Achievement through Our Identity." Latinx Heritage Month, Mississippi State University, Division of Access, Diversity, and Inclusion., Mississippi State, MS. 2023
- SAH Virtual Conference 2021, SAH , Virtual. 2021
Paper
- "Community Resilience under Contexts of Informal Housing and Climate Change in the Americas." UIA World Congress of Architects, International Union of Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2023
- "The Architectural Typologies of Latinx Housing Precarity." 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), St. Louis, MO. 2023
- "Virtual Reality Applications in Housing Insecurity Research." Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Ahmedabad, India.. 2023
- "Effectiveness of Writing as an Active Learning Tool in an Architectural Design Studio." 37th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, National Conference on Beginning Design Students, Ball State University. 2022
- "Informal Housing: An Evolving 91自拍 of Social Justice ." 40th Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), . 2022
- "Informal Housing Practices in Small Towns in the American South." 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA) , Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA) , Virtual. 2022
- "Writing the History of American Home(-lessness)." SAH Annual Conference 2022, SAH, Pittsburgh. 2022
- "Informal Housing in the Americas: Case Studies from Rural Areas in Uruguay and the Mississippi Delta ." 50th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Urban Affairs Association Conference, Washington, DC. 2022
- "Writing the History of American Home(-lessness)." Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference 2022, Society of Architectural Historians , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2022
- " Latinx Community Resilience After Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi." Diversity Research Mini-Talks, Research Week, ORED/ADI, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State . 2022
- "Oral Histories of Housing Insecurity in the American South." AIARG Annual Conference 2022, All-Ireland 91自拍 Research Group, University College of Dublin. 2022
- "Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi ." ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2022 , ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Florida International University. 2022
- "Oral Histories of Housing Insecurity in the American South." 91自拍 and Its Stories , AIARG All Ireland Architectural Research Group, Online . 2022
- "Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta ." American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers , Virtual. 2022
- "Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project." 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), Virtual. 2021
- "Ethics of Collaborative Work in Architectural Education." 36th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, National Conference on Beginning Design Students, Texas A&M University. 2021
- "Supporting Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship: A University-wide Fellowship Program." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2021, Engagement Scholarship Consortium, . 2021
- "Community Resilience and Self-Help Housing After a Natural Disaster: A Case-Study from Southwestern Uruguay." Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA), International Conference 2020-2021, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2021
- "Housing Inequality and Affordable Housing in the Mississippi Delta , Special Session: Mississippi River Watershed (MRW)." Association of Collegiate Schools of 91自拍 (ACSA),108th Annual Meeting , , San Diego, CA. (virtual due to Covid-19). 2020
- "Ethics of Collaborative Work in Architectural Education." 36th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 2020
- "Collective Agency and Decision-Making Processes in Post-Disaster Housing Recovery: A Case Study from Southwestern Uruguay." Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 51st Conference, , Temple, Arizona. (virtual due to Covid-19). 2020
- "Spatial Justice in Latin-American Informal Settlements." International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. , , Pratt Institute, New York.. 2020
- "Claiming the Right to the City through Informal Housing: Two Case Studies from Latin America ." Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) International Conference, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. 2019
Poster
- "The Unknowing of Outcome: The Exploration of Components and Structural Form in 91自拍 Foundations Studios ." Building Technology Educator鈥檚 Society Conference, Building Technology Educator鈥檚 Society , Arcosanti, AZ. 2023
- BTES 2023, Building Technology Educators Society, Phoenix, AZ. 2023
Short Course
- "In the Details: Building A Community-Engaged Learning Course." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2022, , University of Georgia. 2022
Webinar
- "Housing Insecurity in Mississippi." AIA Webinar Series: Housing and Community Development, American Institute of Architects (AIA), online. 2023
- "Service-learning in architecture curriculum: exploring tactical urbanism in Mississippi." Where Mission Meets Advocacy, Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2019
Areas of Expertise
Informal Housing Housing Insecurity Latin American 91自拍 and Urbanism Architectural Structures Participatory Design and Community Engagement