Iván-Nicholas Cisneros-Rangel is a doctoral candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP and is pursuing a graduate certificate in Comparative Literature & Society from the Institute for Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Their scholarship incorporates digital humanity approaches and methodologies from disciplines inclusive of American Studies and Comparative Literature, along with interdisciplines such as Colonial Studies, Critical Race Studies, Ethnic Studies, Translation Studies and Whiteness Studies.
INCR holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where they also earned a certificate in Media + Modernity and received the School of Architecture History and Theory Prize. Additionally, INCR earned a certificate in Urban Policy & Planning from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a minor in History of the Built Environment from the University of California, Berkeley, where they were awarded the Judith Stronach Fellowship and the Lyon Prize in Photography. Iván-Nicholas has practiced at numerous design and research fronts, including curatorial, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and architecture.
When not busy flipping intellectual tables, he enjoys sunning and hugging our terrestrial space rock we call Earth.