Architect and urban planner, leading comprehensive community empowerment programs, sustainable urban planning initiatives, and architectural design projects throughout Latin America.
A holistic thinker who attends to the details, that strive to make good urban practices happen with a focus on plan implementation strategy.
Diego Collazos
Architect | Urban Planner
Experience
More than 15 years of experience in the management, design and implementation of architecture projects, community empowerment initiatives and urban planning; collaborating with public entities, multilateral agencies, academia, NGOs and the private sector:
- American Planning Association
- Architecture for Humanity
- Colegio de Arquitectos de Santa Cruz
- Colegio Departamental de Arquitectos de La Paz
- Enel Cuore
- Fundación Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia
- Fundación Endesa
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Caranavi
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Cobija
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Riberalta
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Rurrenabaque
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Santa Cruz
- Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Trinidad
- Habitat for Humanity
- Happy Hearts Fund
- Nike Gamechangers
- SURA
- UN-Habitat
- Universidad Católica Boliviana
- 103 Grupo de Diseño
EDUCATION
- Msc. Building and Urban Design in Development | The Bartlett – University College London | United Kingdom | 2008
- Bachelor in Architecture | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | 2003
Awards
- 2021 – Municipality of La Paz – Professional Merit | Project Recognition | Bolivia
- 2020 – VII Santa Cruz Architectural Biennale | Honorable Mention | Bolivia
- 2019 – Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Scholarship | Bolivia
- 2014 – IX Iberoamerican Architectural Biennale | Project Award | Spain
- 2012 – SEED – Social Economic Environmental Design | Project Award | United States
- 2011 – Municipal Social Housing – Architectural Competition | Second Place | Bolivia
- 2011 – Copa Arquitectura, Nike Gamechangers | Fourth Place | Argentina
- 2010 – XI Bolivian Architectural Biennale Bolivian | Honorable Mention | Bolivia
- 2010 – III Santa Cruz Architectural Biennale | Honorable Mention | Bolivia
- 2009 – Open Architecture Challenge | Semi Finalist Project / United States
- 2007 – Shell Centenary Scholarship | MSc Scholarship | United Kingdom
- 2006 – Santa Cruz Cultural Centre – Architectural Competition | First Place | Bolivia