Gabriel Cuéllar

Gabriel Cuéllar is an assistant professor in architecture. His design-research focuses on collective landholding practices, housing justice, contemporary environmental politics, and the role of architecture in struggles for spatial justice. He is an architect, urban designer, and educator. Since 2016, and together with Athar Mufreh, Gabriel co-directs Cadaster, a spatial practice that develops design frameworks to support organizations driving systemic change. His writing has appeared in publications by Sternberg Press and Routledge, as well as the journals Oase and Footprint. Gabriel has contributed to projects exhibited in the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the House of World Cultures, Architecture Center Houston, The New School Parsons School of Design, the University of Michigan, and City College of New York. Prior to establishing Cadaster, which was awarded the Architectural League Prize in 2018, he worked in architecture and urbanism offices in Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Houston, and New York City. He was previously Swanson Visiting Assistant Professor and an Oberdick Fellow at Taubman College and a Professor-in-Practice at the University of Minnesota. Gabriel earned a bachelor of architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University and a master of architecture from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.