Pol Fité Matamoros

Pol Fité Matamoros is the Beatrix Farrand Designer in Residence and Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research connects visual culture, spatial production of racial difference, and regime-building processes through historical and colonial case studies in Spain and its former territories.

• PhD, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley (2025)
• Master in Design Studies (Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology), Harvard GSD (2018)
• Master in Urbanism & Architecture, ETSAB-UPC (2016, 2014)

His work interrogates how fascist ideologies and ethnonationalist movements are spatially enacted through urban and landscape design, particularly in 20th-century Spain and its colonies. This includes analyses of visual media, spatial plans, and infrastructural systems as tools for advancing racialized and political hierarchies.

His publications span topics in comparative urbanism, colonial spatial practices, and post-Brexit border landscapes. Key journals include Urbanism Research Journal, PORTUS, and Architectural Design. He frequently collaborates with scholars like Gareth Doherty and Anna Brand on critical urban and racial geographies.

• La Caixa Foundation Full Scholarship (2016)
• Dimitris Pikionis Award (2018)
• UC Berkeley Regent’s Fellowship (2019)
• John L. Simpson Fellowship (2022, 2024)

At UC Berkeley, he teaches design studios focused on thesis preparation, case studies, and urban design fundamentals. His academic trajectory demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement with architecture, landscape theory, and critical race studies.