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Dr. Regner Ramos obtained his Bachelors in Environmental Design (2008) and Masters in Architecture (2010) from the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. In addition, he holds a PhD in Architecture (2016) from The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). He has taught at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London College of Communication, University of Hertfordshire, and Queen Mary University of London.Currently, Regner is a tenured Associate Professor at the UPR School of Architecture, where he teaches courses on architectural design, architectural theory, architectural research, and magazine production in the undergraduate and graduate programs, while also working as Chair of informa journal and Academic Coordinator of the Mellon May Undergraduate Fellowship at UPR-RP.

Ramos's research focuses on the LGBTQ+ community in Puerto Rico, proposing disruptive methodologies to include queer spaces into the landscape of contemporary Puerto Rican architectural discourse. Across his different projects, Ramos’s design-based research practice unfolds through a variety of methods: performative writing, narration, drawings, video/film, and making.

The greater part of his recent work is informed by the idea of the fragment as a queer research method. For Regner, the fragmented state of Puerto Rican queer spaces and architectures calls for alternative, geographically, and culturally-specific methods of documentation, writing, theorization, perservation, and/or protection. By writing, drawing, and making in fragments, Ramos practices interruptions and incompletions as active modes of production within queer spatial theory in Puerto Rico. In this way he is interested in taking ideas apart, reconfiguring them, and re-signifying them.

His latest research project “Cüirtopia: Mapping a Cultural Memory and Architectural Register of Queer Spaces in Puerto Rico” was funded by FIPI (2020-2022), and his first book, co-edited with Sharif Mowlabocus is called Queer Sites in Global Contexts (Routledge 2020). With his partner Kleanthis Kyriakou, he co-directs their architectural practice Wet-Hard Agency, most recently being awarded Graham Foundation funding for their two-year project, "Coloso: A Factory of Queer, Digital Monuments" (2021-2023). Their project "Spread the Secret" is being shown at the 17th Architecture Venice Biennale, in the Cyprus Pavilion. Ramos's recent work has been shown in exhibitions in Germany, Portugal, Italy, and most recently at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art. You can contact him here, see his calendar here, and see what he is up to on Instagram.

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El Site is both a performative writing methodology and a publication output for my research on queerness, digital technologies, and the built environment. Composed of fragments published in real-time, El Site becomes a live narrative and record of the research through a series of ongoing essays, musings, photos, and conversations. The project was generously funded by the FIPI (Fondos Institucionales Para la Investigación) award at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus.

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I'm currently not taking any new primary graduate supervision for the year 2022-2023. However, I'm interested in partaking in secondary supervisions for Doctoral students researching: Gender, Sexuality, Urbanism, Architecture, Ephemerality, Mapping, Artifacts, Decolonialism, Technologies, Queerness, and Drawing.

Primary Advisory:
🏢 🏗 “Untitled”, Manuel Torregrosa-Cueto. Masters Dissertation. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2022-2023.  

🏝🎣 “Villas Pesqueras: Documentando la cultura costera desde el discurso arquitectónico”, Claudia Crespo. Masters Dissertation. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.  

✨🏳️‍🌈 “Paseo Lxs Uvxs”, Arnaldo Cotto-Reyes. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.

✨🎒 “Untitled”, Ezra Delgado De León. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-Ongoing.

✨🎊 “Untitled”, Víctor López-Arroyo. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-Ongoing.

✨🎮 “La Fuguita”, Juan López-Maldonado. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.

✨🧵 “Unisextilandia”, Celimarie Marrero-Sandoval. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.

✨👩 “Senhalo”, Andrea Nieves-González. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.

✨👻 “Estación Puente Mavilla”, Carlos Luis Ríos-Rivera. Masters Dissertation, “Boricua Nights”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2021-2022.

🌊🚣‍♀️“Sede de las Divinas Indulgencias”, Brian Torres. Masters Dissertation, “Pleasures by Water”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2020-2021.

🌊🚢“Noviciado Ultramar”, María Alejandra Burgos. Masters Dissertation, “Pleasures by Water”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2020-2021.

🌊🧂“Criptosalinas”, Gabriela Ennich. Masters Dissertation, “Pleasures by Water”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2020-2021.

🌊💥“Cosmopartus”, Diego Hernández. Masters Dissertation, “Pleasures by Water”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2020-2021.

🌊🏚“Isla Distrito”, Fernando Irizarry. Masters Dissertation, “Pleasures by Water”. School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2020-2021.

🧾“Documenting Queer Space Within Public Housing in Puerto Rico: A Study into Five Stars The Club in Residencial Nemesio Canales”, Manuel Torregrosa-Cueto. Undergraduate Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2019-2021.

🚽“Reliquias del Discrimen: Develación del Género Binario en la Arquitectura Desde el Baño Público”, Reily Joel Calderón-Rivera. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2019-2020. See it here and read it here.

➕“Cruces en Las Carreteras: Ensayos De Los Monumentos Ignorados En Puerto Rico”, José Néstor Rodríguez. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2019-2020. See it here.

⏳“Arquitectura Efímera: La Autobiografía Como Construcción”, Michelle Pérez Alemañy. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2019-Ongoing.

Secondary Advisory:
🕯“What Is Queer May Never Die”, Kleanthis Kyriakou. Masters Dissertation: University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. 2019-2020. See images here and the presentation here.

🏝“Queering the Abyss: Archipelagic Thought, Meta-Relation, and Worldmaking”, Abner A. Fernández Malavé. Masters Dissertation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico. 2019-2020.

🛸“Arquitectura y cine: La construcción visual y emocional de las imágenes a través de escenografía en la ciencia ficción”, Edward Ramírez Saez. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2018-2020.

🗞“Arquitectura Narrativa: De las letras al proyecto. Palimpsesto de una historia urbana”, Yadariz Ramos Hernández. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2018-2019.

🖼“Arquitectura + Instagram: El uso de la red social Instagram en el proceso de diseño para la creación de espacios comerciales”, Fabiola Arroyo. Masters Dissertation: School of Architecture, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2017-2018.