Carolina Alvarez, M.Arch
Associate Scholar
Carolina Alvarez is an architect, researcher, and PhD candidate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and an associate researcher at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut in the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. Her work investigates how photography mediates architectural perception and theory, emphasizing shadow, light, and visual documentation in Latin American modernism. Her research fosters deeper understandings of the migration and transformation of architectural thought, examining how photographic images shape architectural narratives and contribute to scholarship at the intersection of visual and architectural culture.
- History and Theory of Architecture (with attention to Latin American modern architecture)
- Architectural Photography (as a historiographic, analytical, and material tool)
- Tectonics and Material Culture in Architecture
- Climate-Responsive Design and Regional Modernism
- Environmental Architectural History (focus: climate, atmosphere, shadow, and sunlight)
- Visual Culture and Image Analysis (in architectural context)
- Cultural Techniques in Architectural Representation
- Modernist Architectural Lineages (global and transregional exchanges)
- Materiality and the Dynamics of Façade Design
- Photography as Cultural and Technical Mediation in Architecture
- Socio-environmental Contexts for Architectural Transformation
- Migration of Architectural Ideas (Europe–Latin America; transnational flows)
> Metamorphosis of the Modern Shadow: Architectural Image and Tectonics through the Photography of Germán Téllez in Bogotá, Colombia (1960-1975)