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February  2026

Education

+ Bachelor of Architecture
Universidad Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Awarded Thesis: Prototype of Rural Resilient Homes, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.

+ Master of Science in Architecture Typologies. (M-ArchT)
Technische Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany.

+ Doctoral Candidate

Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau, Germany.
Working Title of Dissertation: Hidden labors, (un)caring environments: Architectures and landscapes of invisible domestic work in the Dominican Republic.

Teaching Activities


+ Teaching Assistant: Architecture Bachelor Thesis Studio
Universidad Iberoamericana. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

+ Invited Lecture on Research Project on Spaces of Solidarity
Urban Planning Studio: Safe(r) City? Safe(r) Housing? Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, Germany. Organised by Christian Haid and Anna Steigemann 

+ Invited Lecture
Urban Planning Studio: Feminist thinking in Urban Planning. Master Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning. BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Organised by Natacha Quintero González

+ Teaching Assistant: Architecture, Theory, and History II
Compulsory module. International Master of Architecture DIA. Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau, Germany. With Elke Beyer

+ Seminar: Care to Map?
 International Master of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau, Germany.

+ Lecture + Workshop: On Positionality, the Everyday and Spatial Research
 COOP Design Research Master's, Bauhaus Foundation. Dessau, Germany.

+ 2nd Advisor, Supervision of Architecture Master's Thesis: Interwoven: Proposals for Elderly Housing  
Daniel Kua. International Master of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau, Germany.

+ Lecture + Workshop: Strolling, Sensing, and Assembling: Spatial Storytelling of Everyday Maintenance.

 COOP Design Research Master's, Bauhaus Foundation. Dessau, Germany. With Lea Weise

+ Seminar: Plantation Mutations, Architectures and Networks of Extraction
 International Master of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau, Germany.

Academic Contributions
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+ Periferias Domésticas: Espacialidades Del Trabajo Reproductivo Invisibilizado (conference presentation)
II CIUR 2024, Urbes-Lab Centro de Investigación. Panel: Neoliberalismo y transformación urbana y territorial.
With Natacha Quintero González.


+ Domestic Peripheries: Spatialities of Invisibilised Reproductive Work (conference presentation)
Presented on:
         RC21 Conference: The politics and spaces of encounters. Advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South. Panel 1: Spaces of the rich and powerful: Producing and reproducing privileged neighbourhoods.
         Urban Studies Days Helsinki Conference. Panel: (Work)space, Society, and the Changing City.
         10th forum architectural science: Re/Production conditions of architecture – revisited. Panel 3: Expansion of Care.
With Natacha Quintero González.


+ Backstage of Global Sugar: Assembling life around the batey plantation settlement in the Dominican Republic (conference paper)
III International Congress on Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Labour. Session 14: Plantations, Labour, Resistance and the Built Environment in the Plantationocene and its Afterlives. Publication available at: Architecture+Infrastructures. Serrazina, B., Vita, F. (2026) Working Paper Series 1. Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities and Labour. pp. 41–48
With Elke Beyer.


Exhibitions and other Participations

+ Abstract Traces: Archives and Agendas of Capture and Control
Organization of the student-led symposium aiming to question archival practices in Architecture.  Done in collaboration with Pablo Prado Serrano, Jann Wiegand, Anna Kellermann, Inés Vachez and Klaus Plaztgummer.

+ Traces of Silence in the Berlin Zoologischer Garten (film)
Presented on:
       Student-led symposium: (re)searching urbanities. Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany.
       Projektwekstatt: Critical Culture of Remembrance in Berlin. TU Berlin.
       2023 Dekoloniale Festival and City Walk. Organized by: Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt, Berlin


+ don’t wash your dirty laundry outside (urban performance +  film)
Done in collaboration with: Lea Weise, Gwenn Ackermann, Elnaz Shafizadehh, Emil Bodo.
Presented on:
        Berlin Art Week, 2022. Transgressive. Non-conformist approaches to art and city. Exhibition organised by Poligonal.
        Student-led symposium, 2023: (re)searching urbanities. Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany.
        Design Studio: Spaces of Solidarity. Organised by Moritz Ahlert. TU Berlin.
Honourable Mention Award:
        Open Political Spaces. Open call for projects organised by Space Coordinator.

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Work Experience

Focus on research projects and publications. Berlin, Germany.
+ MM Landscape Architecture
Architect. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

+ Selman Arquitectos
Project Architect. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

+ Exhibition BUILDING INFORMATION
Curatorial assistance. Exhibition curated by Kadambari Baxi, Elisa R. Linn, Klaus Platzgummer, Lennart Wolff. Architekturmuseum TU Berlin.

+ LIN Architekten und Urbanisten

+ Research Associate and Lecturer
Hochschule Anhalt. Fachbereich 3. Architecture and Urban Analysis and Theory. Dr. Prof. Elke Beyer
















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