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CAP Spring 2024 Lecture Series: Ophélia Mantz & Rafael Beneytez-Durán
February 29, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MST
CAP Lecture Series | Ophélia Mantz & Rafael Beneytez-Durán
February 29 @ 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Z4Z4 + Z4A is an architecture and design office located in Madrid, Spain, and Houston, Texas. Led by co-principals Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz, the office is committed to the idea that architecture is a system of thought. Z4A is where ideological, theoretical, and aesthetic matters are assembled. Z4Z4 is where all projects are being developed in technical and material form. From research to writing, from writing to design, from research to writing, and design to teaching. All works are framed over wide tables where assemblies and relationships are designed.
Ophélia Mantz Architect DPLG, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, ENSA -PB, France, 2002, Master in Bioclimatic Architecture and Sustainability, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain, 2015. Her line of research focuses on the construction of ecological thinking in the field of architecture and the city. Together with Rafael Beneytez, she co-directs the Z4Z4 AAA Practice (Architects Activities Associated). She is a professor and director of the Material Research Center at the School of Architecture, Gerald D Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Rafael Beneytez Durán, Founder of Z4A in 2010 and Director of Undergraduate Architecture as Associate Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston, Texas, where he teaches design Studios and Technology courses. Rafael B. Duran completed his BArch and MArch studies in architecture at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM-UPM) in 1998 and awarded PhD by ETSAM-UPM in 2016., awarded with recognition.
