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1 Cristina Parreño Alonso Belluschi Lecturer at MIT; Department of Architecture at MIT 77 Massachusetts avenueroom: M Cambridge, MA USA RFQ #: BP Title: Public Art - Pennsylvania Park Project Due: Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 2:00 PM CST Dear Public Art - Pennsylvania Park Project Committee, It is my pleasure to write this letter of interest to be considered for the design and fabrication of a public art work for Pennsylvania Park in Madison, Wisconsin. My name is Cristina Parreño Alonso. I am a Spanish artist and architect based in Boston. I hold a Masters and Bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) where I graduated with honors in I am currently the Belluschi Lecturer at MIT School of Architecture and Planning where I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate Design Studios for the past seven years. I am also the director of Cristina Parreño Architecture which is a firm actively engaged in design innovation that has been the recipient of multiple national and international awards. At MIT I am conducting an ongoing project called Tectonics of Transparency that looks for opportunities to blend the boundaries between art and architecture for the transformation of public space. Using the concept of transparency, I experiment with technique and effect from small scale prototypes and sculptures to large public art installations that create new art environments. Through my work I integrate research and practice, art and architecture, investigating ingenious ways of creating novel objects and spaces that are able to produce new knowledge on one hand and emotion on the other. The projects employ materials in non-conventional assemblies and exploit the potential of light and transparency as active triggers of new forms of cultural and social exchange. The design of the artwork for the Pennsylvania Park in Madison, Wisconsin is specially inspiring to me because the project will be established in the context of a lively community that cares for their environment and would like to contribute to the improvement of the park. The project will involve various stakeholders and this is something that I have experienced in my previous work. My projects are most often enhanced as a result of a collaborative and interactive process. While I offer a strong framework to oversee conceptual and budgetary discipline, I appreciate bottom up engagement to better understand the very people that are driving themes, concerns, and conceptual opportunities that can only emerge from true dialogue. In this case, it would be a good opportunity to absorb the culture of Pennsylvania Park in Madison, and to see an authorship that is expanded as a result of collaboration. While I would always retain ultimate responsibility for my design recommendations and decisions, the idea of incorporating the community is a central one within to my design philosophy. They are the clients and their voice is key. The call for an innovative project that transforms and activates the public space through a stimulating passing through art experience presents us with a challenge that I would be thrilled to take on. My projects offer an opportunity to explore and innovate in different ways: by using a conventional material, like glass, acrylic or metal, in non-conventional ways; by exploring the use of advance industrial materials and processes in completely different contexts for the generation of new artistic environments or by researching new assemblies that can lead to structural and material innovation while offering exciting and unexpected visual experiences. I believe that the project should integrate research, technology and art in an installation that attracts people and generates knowledge and curiosity through a unique passing through experience.

2 My art practice revolves around specific commissions that range from sculptures for art fairs and galleries to Public Art Installations for cities like Madrid and Boston. One of my assets is the ability to find the resources to make my works of art a reality. Each project is different, and for each project I establish a specific team that suites the needs and requirements that the work requires. I am fortunate to have access to an exceptional community at MIT full of extraordinary friends and colleagues that feed into many of my collaborations. I also have connections with exceptional structural engineers like Simpson, Gumpertz and Heger with whom I have already collaborated and who are always willing to work on innovative structures to generate forward thinking and stimulating works of art. Another resource that I have access to are the facilities of Autodesk BUILD space: A Unique research and development workshop in Boston that provides a venue for architecture, engineering and construction professionals to experiment in a shared, collaborative environment. The Autodesk BUILD Space is designed to support a variety of material types and fabrication processes and it will be an important resource in terms of space, machines and experts. I have designed and built a variety of Public Art Projects and each of them has provided me with unique and valuable learning experience. My project Paper Chandeliers consisted in the design of the VIP lounge for the International Art Fair Arco Madrid. The challenge of that project was the design and fabrication of the project from MIT and the construction of the final piece in Madrid. The ability to organize and coordinate the two teams in Cambridge and Madrid was critical. My project Tectonics of Transparency has been developed through a series of interventions in public spaces where I translated small prototypes to larger, more spatial and site-specific Art Installations. Thanks to Tectonics of Transparency I have gone through a variety of experiences. -The permanent art project The Wall, for instance, is an art installation funded by the International Design Center. The process was extremely simple as the work could be done within the budget assigned by the IDC and the piece was built by myself and two of my research assistants at MIT. -The project The Tower for the Design Biennial Boston, on the other hand, was much more complex as the project was outdoors (in the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park) and we had to look for our own sources of funding. The Center for Arts at MIT was a supporter of the project and we also got the support of the Department of Special Projects of the company Turner Construction. Their collaboration was critical during the construction of the piece. Currently I am working on the project Glow a permanent Public Art Project for Hyde Square - an area of the city of Boston with diverse culture of the residents, including Latino, African American and Afro-Latino communities. The project - which is the result of a public contest, will facilitate a space for congregation and expression through the design of a captivating structure built of transparent acrylic tubes that provide shade and protection. Hyde Square serves a broadly diverse population and has been designated as Boston s Latin Quarter. The Art work Glow will reflect and incorporate the neighborhood s vision of itself, which came about through an inclusive, community-wide design process. While Glow aims to improve Hyde Square s visual environment, it also takes into consideration the identity of a neighborhood and its place among the greater Boston landscape. I look forward the opportunity to discussing my work in the context of the Public Art Work for the Pennsylvania Park Project with you. Sincerely, Cristina Parreño

3 Cristina Parreño Alonso Belluschi Lecturer at MIT; Department of Architecture at MIT 77 Massachusetts avenueroom: M Cambridge, MA USA RFQ #: BP Title: Public Art - Pennsylvania Park Project Due: Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 2:00 PM CST Cristina Parreño is a Spanish architect and artist working in United States. She holds a Masters and Bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) where she graduated with honors. Since 2009, she has been working on her own practice and teaching at various architecture universities. She has taught design studio at the University of Western Australia, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, at Harvard GSD and she currently teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios as a Belluschi Lecturer at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Her firm Cristina Parreño Architecture blends the boundaries between art and architecture and has won several international design competitions. Previously she worked for important international architectural firms like Foreign Office Architects. As an artist, she received the Europe 40 under 40 Design Awards 2014 and she was selected one of the four emerging firms for the Design Boston Biennial 2015 where she exhibited one of the pieces of her research Tectonics of Transparency. Her background as an architect gives her a specific approach to the art scene. Cristina s work focuses on the use of transparency for the design of new environments. At MIT she is conducting the research project called Tectonics of Transparency where she looks at new potentials of materials in non-conventional assemblies and investigates light and transparency as active triggers of new forms of cultural and social exchange within different communities and the environment. The format of the research allows for experimentation with technique and effect from small scale prototypes to large art installations. Some of these projects search for ways in which relevant elements of existing cultures can be reinterpreted through the notion of transparency. In her works, usually, solid and stable structures give us the appearance of fragility, light filtering and translucency. Cristina Parreno has lectured about her work internationally in universities and museums in China, Japan, Spain, Australia, UK, Cuba Chile and USA. The work of Cristina Parreño Architecture has been published in several architectural magazines and newspapers like El Pais, El Mundo, ABC, Arquitectura COAM, Vía Arquitectura, AV proyectos, Quaderns, Concurso Catalogos de Arquitectura, Future Architectures, Arquitectura plus, Bob Magazine, ON Diseño, AD Magazine. 1. AWARDS: 2017 Award from the Center for the Arts at MIT for Tectonics of Transparency Award from Now and There Public Art Accelerator Program in Boston MISTI Award for research Project Igneous Tectonics st prize for Hyde Square Public Art Project by The Boston Art Commission st prize for Design Biennial Boston HASS Award for Research Project Tectonics of Transparency Honorable Mention. NY Architectural League Folly "Europe 40 under 40 Design Awards International Design Center Grant for Tectonics of Transparency st prize for the VIP Lounge in International ART Fair ARCO Madrid. Project built Runner up. Competition for National Library of Slovenia st prize with FOA. Forensic Institute of El Campus de la Justicia de Madrid st prize. Rehabilitation of the business complex AZCA. Cristina Parreno Architecture st prize with ACM Housing competition for Quaderns Magazine with ACM Selected Thesis project. VIA Architecture competition rd prize. Competition for young architects. Housing Andalusia. J st prize with ACM. Navy training competition

4 2-EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS: 2017 ACADIA Exhibition. Project: Tectonics of Transparency (currently on display) 2017 Art Festival Sharjah 20 th edition. Project: Transparent Muqarnas (currently on display) 2017 Americas Collection Gallery in Miami. Project: Tectotransparency in a Cube (currently on display) 2017 Permanent Public Art Project in Hyde sq. Boston. Project: Glow (on going) 2016 Permanent Public Art Project at the International Design Center at MIT Project: The Wall 2015 Public Art at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park for the Design Biennial Boston. Project: The Tower 2015 Exhibition Art Gallery NADAAA in Boston. Project: Makers in the Making 2014 Exhibition for awardees of Europe 40 under 40 Design Awards. Projects of Cristina Parreno Architecture 2013 Public Art Project International Art Fair ARCO Madrid Project: Paper Chandeliers 3-FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: 2017 MISTI- Research on Materials Grant- 29,000$ Belluschi Fellowship at MIT 2016 CAMIT Center for Arts at MIT Grant- 5,000$ 2015 Design Biennial Boston Grant: 5,000$ 2015 CAST Center for Arts Science and Technology Grant: 4000$ 2014 HASS Research Grant- 20,000$ 2014 International Design Center at MIT Grant: 17,000$ 2013 HASS Art grant- 4,000$ 4.EDUCATION: Art Couse at the GLASS Lab at the Department of Material Science at MIT Degree in Architecture from Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. ETSAM Graduated with Sobresaliente Arquitectura y Ciudad Histórica Events of VI Biennial of Spanish Architecture, in Toledo. Organized by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Castilla-La Mancha, Consorcio ciudad de Toledo, Real Fundación de Toledo Producción de ciudad with: B.van Berkel, A.Zaera, S.Allen, D.Agrest The city nowadays Diálogos sobre Arquitectura Contemporánea with of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Eisemman, Grimshaw, Koolhaas, Perrault, Vitale. 5. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Cristina is a professor at the Department of Architecture at MIT and she is a Member of the M.Arch. Admissions Committee at MIT since She previously taught at the State University of NY at Buffalo and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Regular guest critic in the Schools of Architecture at: Cornell, Cooper Union, Michigan, Northeastern, RISD, Pratt, SUNY at Buffalo, Syracuse and Harvard GSD.

5 Cristina Parreño Alonso Belluschi Lecturer at MIT; Department of Architecture at MIT 77 Massachusetts avenueroom: M Cambridge, MA USA RFQ #: BP Title: Public Art - Pennsylvania Park Project Due: Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 2:00 PM CST PAPER CHANDELIERS: C_WorkSample_CParreno (1) C_WorkSample_CParreno (2) Description: Paper Chandeliers is an experimental space where the simplicity of the materials appears as a counterpoint to the technology of fabrication. Paper Chandeliers is a big undulating roof made out of paper tubes that illuminates the spatial environment mediating between the art installation and the architectural project. The project was selected to be built for the yearly International Art Fair ARCO Madrid 2013 and was supported by MIT Architecture. Author: Cristina Parreño Year of completion: 2013 Client: Art Fair Arco Madrid. Location: Ifema Convention Center. Avda. del Partenón, Madrid, Spain Material: Paper Size: 6mx10mx10m GLOW C_WorkSample_CParreno (3) Description: Glow is a Public Art Project for Hyde Square - an area of the city of Boston with diverse cultures of the residents, including Latino, African American and Afro-Latino communities. The project the result of a contest for the City of Boston, aims to reconstruct the rotary at Centre, Perkins, and Day Streets in Jamaica Plain. Glow addresses the concerns of the community using the relationship between art and architecture to promote the engagement of the local residents with the square facilitating a recognizable space for congregation and expression while at the same time including a signature image for Hyde square. A 30 x10 x10xof four structures built of 30 feet tall acrylic transparent poles will provide shade and sense of identity to the square while serving as indicator of the level of social activity in the public space. The poles which hold a set of fiber optics will also move with the wind and the touch of the user generating a dynamic illuminated artificial landscape made of transparent reeds. Each structure will be equipped with a set of sensors that detect the presence around the poles producing varied levels of intensity in the illumination of the fiber optics inside of the poles. During the day pedestrians will be able to pass through openings in the poles of "Glow" as well as experience an optic illusion resulting from the translucent coloration of the material, the angle at which light falls on a given place within the structure and the place where a viewer might be standing or sitting. Author: Cristina Parreño Year of completion: 2018 Client: City of Boston Location: Hyde Sq. Jamaica Plain in Boston Material: Acrylic Size: 30 x10 x10 TECTONICS OF TRANSPARENCY: THE TOWER C_WorkSample_CParreno (4) C_WorkSample_CParreno (5) Description: Glass has traditionally been used as an infill material, one that is rarely understood for its structural possibilities. This tower is part of an ongoing series of projects (including a wall and a shelter) that examine the innate capacity of glass to withstand extraordinary compressive forces. Each of the 350 blocks in this seventeen-foot-tall landmark is custom fabricated from layers of glass and assembled in a screen-like pattern of alternating blocks and

6 openings. The piece invokes the Greenway s infrastructural and maritime heritage. From the more distant past, it recalls a lighthouse guarding the harbor before the city extended its landform into the water. The project is part of the Design Biennia Boston Author: Author: Cristina Parreño Year of completion: 2015 Client: Design Biennial Boston Structural Engineer: Paul Kassabian of SGH Location: Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston Photos: Jane Messinger Sponsors: Boston Society of Architects, CAMIT, Turner, Karas&Karas. Material: Glass Dimensions: Diameter: 2 6-3/6 Height: 12 TECTONICS OF TRANSPARENCY: THE WALL C_WorkSample_CParreno (6) C_WorkSample_CParreno (7) C_WorkSample_CParreno (8) Description: Tectonics of Transparency is a series of architectural prototypes that explore the relationship between formal design, spatial perception, structural efficiency and systems of fabrication, introducing the variant of the glass medium that contributes by offering a completely new set of parameters thus requiring new means and method of aggregation, joinery, and stabilization. The Wall is the first installation of the series. The project aims to generate high compressive strength as a vehicle to produce spatial environments that are specific to the glass medium. The use of glass as the only material touches on issues of perception, privacy, transparency, light and opacity. In turn, the artifact has the potential to exude multiple interpretations. The project emphasizes the interaction between structure and light. Its appearance varies dramatically in relation to the source of light and the position of the viewer. The myriad of apertures of the screen subtly change shape as we perceive them from different angles. Author: Cristina Parreño Year of Completion: 2014 Location: International Design Center at MIT. Cambridge, MA, USA Photographers: John Horner and Jane Messinger Material: Glass Size: 3mx1mx5m TECTOTRANSPARENCY IN A CUBE C_WorkSample_CParreno (9) Description: The term tectonics refers to the structure of the earth surface but it is also closely related to technique, construction, structure and stereotomy in architecture and artistic design. In Tectotransparencies in a Cube, the notion of tectonics appears in its poetic and in its rational implications. These sculptures become then material environments that emerging from a rational geometry and a rigid medium generate an organic environment of freedom and fluidity. Author: Cristina Parreño Year of Completion: 2016 Location: Gallery Americas Collection in Miami Photographers: John Horner Material: Acrylic Size: 1 x 1 x1

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