Cristina Parreño Alonso

Cristina Parreño Alonso is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, where she founded the Deep Time Project, advocating for architectural practices aligned with planetary timescales. She directs Cristina Parreño Architecture, based in Cambridge and Madrid. Her work bridges environmental urgency and design innovation, exhibited globally at venues like La Biennale di Venezia 2021.

• Research focuses on redefining architecture within Earth's geological timescales
• Publications in Log Magazine, Journal of Architectural Education, and Strelka Magazine

Awards include the European Award 40 Under 40 and Emerging Firms Award. Her writing emphasizes climate agency and pedagogical frameworks for ecological design.