José Aragüez, PhD is an architect, writer, and educator. He maintains a teaching affiliation with Yale University, having previously led graduate studios and seminars at Columbia University GSAPP from 2013–20, and having held the 2020–21 H. Deane Pearce Endowed Chair at Texas Tech. Aragüez obtained a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. Earlier he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Granada, Spain (Honorable Mention, University Graduation Extraordinary Prize, and 1st National Prize in Architecture) and, from Columbia GSAPP, with a post-professional Master’s degree (Honor Prize for Excellence in Design) and a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Architectural Research. Aragüez has lectured extensively across Europe and North America—including most of the top schools—in addition to the Middle East and Japan. Besides Yale, Columbia, and Texas Tech, he has taught at Cornell, Princeton, Penn, Rice University in Paris, and the University of Granada. He is the author of two books: Spatial Infrastructure (Actar, 2022/2023) and Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture (Actar, 2024/2025). Domus, e-flux, Flat Out, The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2018), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2022), and TECNOSCAPE: The Architecture of Engineers (Fondazione MAXXI, 2022), among other media, have published his writings as well. Aragüez is the founding principal of José Aragüez Architects, a practice for architecture, urbanism, and the production of discourse based in Paris while keeping substantial connections with New York and Spain. In the past, he worked as an architect for Antonio J. Torrecillas (Spain), MVRDV (Rotterdam), and Idom/ACXT (London).