Soledad Patiño

Soledad Patiño

Soledad Patiño is an Argentine architect and urban planner, professor and critic in Urban Design and Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. She is a founding partner of the research and design studio Región Austral. She works as a consultant in the Housing and Urban Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At the IDB she coordinates and leads urban design initiatives and programs focused on slum upgrading, urban resilience, migration and ecological design, as well as metropolitan governance in Latin America. She has received numerous awards and research grants including a Fulbright Fellowship from the Argentine Ministry of Education (2018-2021), Penny White Fellowship at Harvard (2019), and the Holcim Next Generation First Prize (2021). She is co-author and editor of "Ecological Design: Strategies for the Vulnerable City: Urban Green Infrastructure and Public Space in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2022) and "Extreme Urbanism 6 - Sanitation as Infrastructure" (2021). Soledad trained as an architect and urban planner at the National University of Cordoba (2016), and was a research associate at Harvard University where she received a Master of Architecture degree in Urban Design with Distinction in 2020.