Gloria Serra Coch
Fields of expertise
Biography
Glòria Serra Coch is an architect by the Polytechnique School of Catalonia (UPC), Architecture School of Barcelona. During her studies and after graduation, she assisted the research team Architecture, Energy and Environment (AiEM), exploring methods of integrating renewable energies in cities as well as finding ways of measuring the impact of urban morphology in energetic parameters.
In 2017, she obtained la Caixa Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies to pursue a MS. in Urban Planning at Columbia University, New York. She graduated with a concentration in Urban Analytics and won the Planning Practice Thesis Award, for analyzing the impact of mapping in the historical planning of New York City neighborhoods. At Columbia, she assisted researching the effects of mobility networks in social accessibility, using GIS public data to map individual opportunity based on time-space daily constraints.
After graduation, she combined professional practice with academics and research. She started working in the Urban Planning team of CallisonRTKL, where she also got involved with the newly created research division and participated in the first Digital Evolution Lab. At the same time, she also assisted, as adjunct professor, a joint architecture-urban planning studio of Columbia University focused on Puerto Rico’s inner connectivity.
Education
MS Urban Planning
Graduate School of Architecture, planning and Preservation
Columbia University
2017-2019
Architecture (Bsc Master)
The Superior Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona is part of the Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC) and offers a degree on Architecture and Urbanism with an approach from the conceptual level to the technical detail. The degree comprise
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
2009-2015
Awards
2019 : Planning Practice Award for a Master thesis that directly engages the practice of planning : Columbia University in the City of New York
2019 : New York Chapter of the American Planning Association's Award : New York Chapter of the American Planning Association
2020 : Digital Evolution Lab Judge’s Runner Up Award : CallisonRTKL
2016 : La Caixa Fellowship for study and research abroad for 24 months : Fundació la Caixa
2015 : Special mention. Architecture Competition : IS ARCH