Jose Ahedo
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Exterior view of Blanca Pyrenees Educational Center. Photo: Adría Goula, courtesy StudioAhedo.
Jose Ahedo | Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture
Jose Ahedo will deliver the 2024 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Ahedo established his own firm, StudioAhedo, in 2010. His first completed project was Blanca, a dairy complex consisting of thirteen buildings in the Pyrenees. The complex includes animal facilities, research genetic labs, as well as an education center.
His practice aims to clarify the current challenges faced by various farming communities and looks for opportunities for designers to take action in one of the most uneven economic sectors.
About Jose Ahedo
Jose Ahedo’s design portfolio is diverse. From residential projects to graphic design, branding, and even hardware and user interface development, his work spans a wide spectrum of design disciplines.
In 2014, his research project titled “Domesticated Grounds: Design and Domesticity Within Animal Farming Systems” won the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. This research involved traveling to remote rural areas on four continents to interview hundreds of families, scientists, and policymakers. The focus was on investigating the design and material systems related to animal farming operations.
Ahedo earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture in Barcelona in 2005 and a Master of Architecture II from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2010. He was born in northern Spain in 1980.
Blanca Pyrenees Educational Center
Exterior view. Photo: Adría Goula.
Blanca Pyrenees Educational Center
Detail view. Photo: Adría Goula.
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Single Family House in Tudela, Spain. Photo: Adría Goula.
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Single Family House in Tudela, Spain. Photo: Adría Goula.
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Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series