MANUEL SAGA Architecture History

Research

Research groups
2019 - ongoing - Member of research group ‘Architecture and Contemporary Culture’ (ref. HUM-813). Head researcher: Juan Calatrava Escobar. Role: Researcher. Universidad de Granada. 
2016 - 2018 - Member of research group 'Pedagogies of the Habitat and the Public' Research group. Role: Researcher.
Architecture Department, Universidad de los Andes.
2014 - 2016 - Member of research group 'Architecture, City and Education' Research group. Role: Research Assistant.
Architecture Department, Universidad de los Andes.

Research projects
2022-2024  -  Research project: ‘Zona_Norte. La Vivienda social de la Zona Norte de Granada. Recuperación arquitectónica y urbana; oportunidades de Desarrollo sostenible.’ Role: Researcher. Lead researcher: Rafael de Lacour, Universidad de Granada. Funding institution: Junta de Andalucía. Budget: 50.000 €.
2021-2025 - Research project: ‘FoodCity. Comida y Ciudad, de lo doméstico al espacio público. Elementos para una historia, argumentos para el proyecto contemporáneo’. Role: Researcher.
Lead researchers: David Arredondo Garrido y Juan Calatrava Escobar. Research group HUM-813, Universidad de Granada. Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Gobierno de España. Budget: 57.800 €.
2021-2023 - Research project: ‘Creativos_Andaluces_Online: Dinámicas Contemporáneas en la Comunicación de Arte y Arquitectura’. Role: Researcher. Lead researchers: David Arredondo Garrido y Juan Calatrava Escobar. Research group HUM-813, Universidad de Granada. Funding Institution: Junta de Andalucía, Programa Operativo Feder (Unión Europea). Budget: 20.000 €.
2017-2019 - Research Project: ‘Publicidad en revista Proa durante los años 50’. Architecture Department and Design Department, Universidad de los Andes.
Role: Researcher. Funding institution: Universidad de los Andes.
Budget: 102.181.887 COP.
2014-2015 - Research Project: ‘Educación en Arquitectura en primer año’. Research group ‘Architecture, City and Education’, Architecture Dep., Universidad de los Andes.
Role: research assistant. Includes coordination work for the International Seminar ‘First Year Architecture Education’. International guests: Ricardo Castro and Brunno Queysanne. 2015. Funding institution: Universidad de los Andes. Budget: 40.000.000 COP.
2013 - Teaching Innovation Project: ‘Intercambia UGR’. Role: teaching and research assistant, under the direction of Dr. Francisco Lamas, Universidad de Granada.
2011-2012 - Development Cooperation Project: ‘Protection, recuperation and rehabilitation of Tetouan’s Medina’. Role: Research assistant through the M. Arch 2 thesis ‘Intervention in Teouan’s Mujahidin cemetery’, under the direction of Dr. Rafael de Lacour, Universidad de Granada.
2008 - Teaching Innovation Project: ‘Architecture in the online universe’. Universidad de Granada. Role: Role: research assistant, under the direction of Dr. Javier Fernández García.
2008 - Teaching Innovation Project: ‘From the sea to the mountain: Mediterranean seaside’. Role: Research assistant, under the direction of Dr. José María Moreno, Universidad de Granada.

Academic consulting projects
2016-2018 - Formulation and institutional design of the new Facultad de Creación (Faculty of Creative Studies) including undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture, arts, and design. Client: Universidad del Rosario. Role: research assistant. Head consultant: Dr. Juan Pablo Aschner, Universidad de los Andes. 
2016 - Architectural Design Management project for the headquarters of Universidad Panamericana, Bogotá. Designed by Bermúdez Arquitectos, leading Colombian architecture office. Client: Compensar, Universidad Panamericana. Role: research assistant. Head consultant Dr. Rafael Villazón, Universidad de los Andes. 

Academic service
2022 - Member of the organizing committee of the IV International Conference ‘Cultura y Ciudad’, organized by the research group HUM-813 ‘Architecture and Contemporary Culture’, Universidad de Granada, to take place between January 24-26, 2024.
2022 - Secretary of the Seminar ‘Dinámicas Contemporáneas de Comunicación en Arquitectura’, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
2018 - Co-design and hosting of the event ‘IMPRESO-NANTE’, presentation of academic publications at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2016-2017 - Team Manager of Bogotá Visible, digital divulgation project on Bogota’s urban debates. Leader of a team of 4 people. Architecture Department, Universidad de los Andes.
2014-2017 - Advisor for the optimization of research groups evaluation, Universidad de los Andes.
Service in peer-reviewed scholarly publications
2022-2024 - Associate Editor of Architectural Histories. Journal of the European Architectural History Network. OLH. Avery, SJR Q2, JCR-JCI Q2. O-ISSN 2050-5833.
2020-ongoing - Editor of LC. Revue de recherches sur Le Corbusier. Universitat Politècnica de València, Fondation Le Corbusier. Online ISSN 2660-7212. Valencia, Spain.
2009-2020 - Member of the editorial committee of URBS Journal of Urban Studies and Social Sciences, Universidad de Almeria and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ISSN: 2014-2714. Spain
- External reviewer for the Architecture Collection of Routledge, Taylor & Francis, UK. SPI Q1.
- External reviewer for International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Intellect Ltd. JCR-AHCI Q2, SJR Q1, ISSN 20455895, Online ISSN 20455909, Bristol, UK.
- External reviewer for Culture & History Journal, Ed. Instituto de Historia IH-CSIC. JCR-AHCI-Q2, SJR Q3, ISSN-E 2253-797X, Madrid, Spain.
- External reviewer for DEARQ Architecture Journal, Ed. Universidad de los Andes. Avery Index, WoS, ISSN 2011-3188 
- External reviewer for SOBRE Journal. Universidad de Granada. ISSN 2387-1733, E-ISSN 2444-3484. Granada, Spain.
- External reviewer for Anales 51. Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas ‘Mario J. Buschiazzo’, Universidad de Buenos Aires. ISSN 1853-5518. Argentina.
- External reviewer for VAD. Veredes, arquitectura y divulgación. Editorial Veredes, Jung Foundation. ISSN 2659-9139. Spain.
- External reviewer for TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura. Universidad de Sevilla. ISSN 2695-7736. Spain.
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