[interim] is an architecture studio created by Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo to facilitate and record collaborative projects, including interdisciplinary research and design work, the production of events, exhibitions, and publications, and experiments in radical pedagogy in architecture and spatial justice. It operates from New York City, Palestine, and the Canary Islands.
Eduardo Rega Calvo
erega@design.upenn.edu
Eduardo Rega Calvo is a licensed architect from the Canary Islands living in New York. He is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio [interim], and a Senior Lecturer of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, where he has taught since 2014. His work explores architecture’s capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to social and environmental movements for justice. Architectures of Refusal is a project launched in 2017 at Penn, which situates politically and is a larger framework for his research and pedagogical work.
While rooted in urban and architectural design and theory, Eduardo’s practice intersects with critical geography and political theory. He considers architecture as an expanded field of spatial knowledge and teaches design as a life-affirming practice aligned with eco-feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist movements. His work has been situated in Colombia, the Canary Islands, and the occupied Golan Heights, as well as in Detroit, Philadelphia, and the South Bronx.
He co-produced the collaborative multimedia exhibition Antum Al-Ṣaūt; Wa Naḥnu Ṣadāh (You Are The Voice; We Are It’s Echo) at the Graham Foundation for the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2023-2024). He co-curated the Housing Justice Futures: Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change at the University of Pennsylvania (2023) and co-leads the pedagogical initiative Spatial Justice Collective: Study and Praxis in Philadelphia.
He was Project Manager for the Fresh Air Everywhere Summer Teen Academy (2020-2021) with PennPraxis, where he was a Senior Fellow. He co-curated and co-organized Sarāb (2019) a festival of experimental electronic music and performance from the Arab worlds, and the conference Structural Instability: History, Environment, and Risk in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (2017) and co-edited its culminating series of essays on e-flux Architecture (2018).