[1] He is an Argentine architect, designer, and educator widely credited for spearheading the transition of SCI-Arc to digital technologies, playing a key role in shaping the school's graduate curriculum in the past decade.
As SCI-Arc director, he oversees the direction of an institution with more than 500 students and 80 faculty members, many of whom are well known in the fields of architecture and design.
Along with his leadership at SCI-Arc, Díaz Alonso is principal of the Los Angeles–based firm HDA-X, known for producing grotesque and sometimes unsettling work that challenges responses to environment.
Over the course of his career as an architect and educator, Díaz Alonso has earned accolades for his leadership and innovation, and his ability to build partnerships among varied constituencies.
Díaz Alonso was named by DesignIntelligence as one of their 25 Most Admired Educators for 2018-2019 and won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award in 2019.