Leticia Izquierdo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States

Leticia Izquierdo

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    Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop 2022

    Leticia Izquiero is currently a Masters student in the City Science Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she is conducting research on decentralized energy systems, high-performance housing and incentive policies to cope with the current climate crisis. She was a selected scholar at the Norman Foster Foundation Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop 2022 supported by the Holcim Foundation.

Leticia Izquiero is an architect, urban planner, and researcher on the future of cities. Currently a Masters student in the City Science Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she is conducting research on decentralized energy systems, high-performance housing and incentive policies to cope with the current climate crisis. She also designs tangible interfaces to help achieve better urban design practices.

Last updated: April 26, 2023

Leticia Izquierdo was part of the United Nations (UN) Chair on Equality Policies in Science, Technology, and Innovation, where she worked in public-private collaborations such as the new urban development of Madrid Nuevo Norte. She has practiced as an urban planner at EIT Climate KIC and Balkrishna Doshi Studio. Some of her projects have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (ICT Tools for Safer Cities) and International Conferences on Data for Actionable Policy and Computational Social Sciences.

She was a selected scholar at the Norman Foster Foundation Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop 2022 supported by the Holcim Foundation.