Carolyn Aguilar-Dubose (aguilardubose)

Architect trained in Mexico and Urban Designer trained in the UK, Certified Chief Construction Officer and Certified Expert on Urban Development for the Mexico City Local Authority.  Since 2004, she has invested most of her continuing education on sustainability topics, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating systems for buildings and neighborhoods, and Biomimicry, a method of bringing Life’s Principles to the design table.

In the consulting and contracting firm she founded 18 years ago, she was responsible for the construction of 500 low-income housing units after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, as well as the design, building, remodelling of residences, offices, public spaces, neighborhood markets, health clinics and subdivisions. She has worked on World Bank transportation projects, urban planning, urban design and urban image studies for local land plans and policies.

Professor Aguilar-Dubose has taught at Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) for 21 years, has received an Outstanding Teacher Award, and is the first woman to be named Dean of the 53 year-old Department of Architecture. As an academic she has developed the sustainability mystique, as well as the implementation of the Green Campus Project at UIA.  She coordinated the Second Cycle Holcim Award Competition promotion for the Latin American Region, and is presently coordinating the fourth edition of the successful Diploma Course on Sustainable Design and Construction. 

She is a member of the Mexico City Architectural Association and directed its Architecture and Urbanism Institute for four years.  She is a member, through UIA, of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and of the Urban Land Institute.

She has been invited as juror to top national competitions like the 2010 Bicentennial Park National Project, and the Architecture Annual Awards for the Federal Copyrights and Royalties Institute.

Professor Aguilar-Dubose has lectured in Mexico, France, the UK and China, on the evolution of Mexico City, history of urban form and transportation in metropolitan areas.

She lives with her husband and two children in Mexico City.