Ana Morcillo Pallarés

Associate Professor of Architecture
Teaching Areas
Architectural Design, Design Research, Spatial Politics
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Office: 3190 / Liberty Research Annex

Ana Morcillo Pallarés is an architect, designer and researcher. Her work interrogates social, spatial, and material realities, focusing on the continuous negotiation of urban agents, citizen demands, private interests and political agendas. At Taubman College, Morcillo Pallarés initiated her academic career as Walter B. Sander Research Fellow 2014-2015. She received her Ph.D. in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid (ETSAM) and her professional degree in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Valencia (ETSAV). Her dissertation “New York City: the revitalization of public space after 1950’s” received the ETSAM Honors Award and it has been recently published as: “Oasis y Vitrinas. La transformación del espacio público en Nueva York” (Diseño Editorial, 2019).

Morcillo Pallarés is co-founder and partner of Morcillo Pallarés + Rule Arquitectos since 2005. MPR is a design and research practice based in Spain and Michigan whose work explores the architectural project at a variety of scales. Morcillo Pallarés + Rule design proposals have received numerous awards and exhibited broadly, most recently receiving an award for research at the XIV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial.

Projects

Architecture, Nov 6, 2024
Architecture, Aug 25, 2019

Courses

ARCH 509, Section 12
Fall 2024
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 552, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés, McLain Clutter, Steven Mankouche, Julia McMorrough, Charlie O’Geen, Neal Robinson, Jonathan Rule, Christian Unverzagt
ARCH 823, Section 3
Winter 2024
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 509, Section 17
Winter 2024
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 662, Section 1
Winter 2024
Instructors: Jose Sanchez, Ishan Pal Singh, Robert Adams, Matias del Campo, Irene Hwang, Perry Kulper, Emily Kutil, Alina Nazmeeva, Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Steven Mankouche
ARCH 432
Fall 2020
Instructors: Christian Unverzagt, Malcolm McCullough, Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 509, Section 8
Fall 2020
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 823, Section 1
Fall 2020
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 509, Section 11
Fall 2022
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 552
Fall 2022
Instructors: Malcolm McCullough, Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Julia McMorrough, Neal Robinson, Christian Unverzagt, Craig Wilkins, Peter Halquist, Perry Kulper, Matias del Campo, Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 326
Winter 2023
Instructors: Joy Knoblauch, Ana Morcillo Pallarés
ARCH 442
Winter 2023
Instructors: Anya Sirota, Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye, Alina Nazmeeva, Leah Wulfman
ARCH 552, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Dawn Gilpin, Peter Halquist, Steven Mankouche, Julia McMorrough, John McMorrough, Gina Reichert, Neal Robinson, Jonathan Rule, Charlie O’Geen, Christian Unverzagt
ARCH 660, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Jose Sanchez, Ishan Pal Singh, Robert Adams, Matias del Campo, Irene Hwang, Perry Kulper, Emily Kutil, Alina Nazmeeva, Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Steven Mankouche, Tsz Yan Ng