Daniel Lopez

Daniel Lopez-Perez is an Assistant Professor in Architecture whose practice moves across academic and professional research in search of ways to expand the discipline of architecture in unprecedented ways. As a Ph.D. Candidate of History and Theory in the Department of Architecture at Princeton University, Lopez-Perez is interested in historiography, focusing particularly on the theme of the skyscraper as an artifact that triggers the writing and rewriting of many histories. During the 1970s,...See more

Daniel Lopez-Perez is an Assistant Professor in Architecture whose practice moves across academic and professional research in search of ways to expand the discipline of architecture in unprecedented ways. As a Ph.D. Candidate of History and Theory in the Department of Architecture at Princeton University, Lopez-Perez is interested in historiography, focusing particularly on the theme of the skyscraper as an artifact that triggers the writing and rewriting of many histories. During the 1970s, this discourse, "skyscraperology", appeared in a period of unprecedented transformation of the skyscraper in professional practice. The dissertation traces the theoretical and historiographical writings on the skyscraper, as well as its technical and aesthetic innovations, speculating that both are structurally linked. In professional practice, Lopez-Perez has been project architect in a number of large scale commissions and international competitions for David Chipperfield Architects in London, some of which were awarded first prizes such as the extension to the San Michele Cemetery in Venice. In New York, Lopez-Perez was project architect for Foreign Office Architects, developing the design of The Bundle Tower TM and project architect for FOA within the United Architects Team, for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's World Trade Center Ideas Competition. Currently, Lopez-Perez is building a number of residential projects along the coast of Baja California. See less