Alonso L Ortega he/him is an emerging transdisciplinary architectural designer + artist + educator + researcher based in New York. The focus of his work is on the investigation of materiality as political, the influence of digital processes on design language, and the disciplines adaptability to respond to diverse circumstances, scales, and frameworks. Ortega has held teaching roles as an Associate Faculty Member at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, where he fostered an experimental and exploratory environment that addressed contemporary challenges of spatial justice, equity, and coloniality. Ortega currently works with Mario Gooden Studio as a Junior Architect in which he leads and manages projects while addressing and engaging in the cultural landscape and intersectionality of architecture, race, gender, sexuality, and technology. Ortega completed an advanced graduate degree in architecture from Columbia University and a B.Arch. from Iowa State University. It is Ortega’s ongoing commitment to pushing the boundaries of architecture and its practice by pursuing curiosity, questioning convention, and navigating problem-solving in a creative manner that continues to add value to the profession.