Carolina Rodas

Architect | Master in Collective Housing | Educator | Cultural and Design Practitioner

Carolina Rodas is an Ecuadorian architect, educator, and cultural practitioner, co-founder of RAMA Estudio and Torno Co.Lab. She holds a degree in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and a Master in Collective Housing (MCH) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She also holds a Diploma in Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA).

Her practice approaches architecture as a situated process, integrating territory, housing, community, sustainability, constructive innovation, and resource optimization. Through RAMA Estudio, she develops projects that explore new ways of producing architecture and the city, rooted in the social, cultural, environmental, and material conditions of each place.

Her work has received national and international recognition, including the ArchDaily Next Practices Award 2026, AMMODO Social Engagement 2025, the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) in the Pedagogies category, the New York Biennial Award for Urban and Community Design 2024, the Holcim Award 2023, and the 2023 Buenos Aires Biennial First Prize. Her work has also been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, the Swiss Architectural Award, and the Diversity in Architecture Awards (DIVIA).

With more than fifteen years of teaching experience, she has been invited as a lecturer at universities and international platforms across Mexico, Costa Rica, the United States, Brazil, Peru, and Europe. In 2024, she was a speaker at the Biennale di Venezia, in the context of Diversity in Architecture, and has lectured at institutions including the University of Texas, University of Illinois, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, among others.

She served as Academic and International Coordinator of the Pan-American Architecture Biennial of Quito and has also participated as a speaker at TEDx events.

Her work lies at the intersection of architecture, territory, housing, community, and ecosystems, understanding the project not simply as a built object, but as a process of transformation and collective making.