Ricardo Avella

Ricardo Avella is an Architect and urbanist. He holds a
double degree in Architecture from the Universidad Central
de Venezuela and the Politecnico di Torino, and graduated cum
laude from the European Post-Master in Urbanism at Delft
University of Technology. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate
in Delft, where he is researching the modernization of the
Venezuelan Amazon and the role of rural housing as an
instrument of colonization during the Cold War. He has
collaborated as an urban designer and spatial analyst with
ORG Permanent Modernity in Brussels on many large-scale
urban projects. Before migrating to Europe in 2017, he worked
as an architect between Venezuela and the Dominican
Republic, running his own architecture practice in Caracas.
He was a guest lecturer at the School of Architecture of the
Universidad Central Venezuela, and worked as coordinator
of an advanced master’s degree in Urbanism at the Università
IUAV di Venezia.