Curriculum Vitae

Maria Isabel Rasmussen

Address           Housing Development & Management
                        Box 118
                        SE - 221 00 Lund 
                         Sweden
Tel:                  +46-(0)46- 222 9761
                        +46-(0)46-222 4469 (Direct)
Fax:                  +46-(0)46- 222 8181 
e-mail:              maria.rasmussen@hdm.lth.se

Profession:      Architect
Born:                1 June, 1964, Colombia

Employment Record

 2004 – today: Housing Development & Management, Lund  University, Sweden 2011 – PhD student

Lecturer and tutor, at post graduate level and in undergraduate training in Sweden.

Project assistant, for PROMESHA (Programa para el Mejoramiento Socio Habitacional), a Sida supported capacity building program in urban and housing development for Latin America. Responsible for quality management of regional and national capacity building activities. Coordinator for Bolivia and Ecuador, two of the seven focus countries of the program; lecturer at the national activities in there countries.
Have planned, conducted and coordinated several missions of capacity building activities in Latin America with different NGOs, central and local governments as well as local universities.
Editor for the PROMESHA´s working paper serie, Cuaderno de Análisis.

In Bolivia:

• Planned, implemented and evaluated two housing policy seminars in La Paz, July 2006, and in Sucre, November 2007.

In Ecuador:

• Planned, implemented and evaluated three workshops on sustainable human settlements for the poor, in Guayaquil, in October 2006, 2007 and 2009, with the support of the municipality, town planning department and different NGOs, local governments and local and European universities.
• Planned, implemented and evaluated two housing policy seminars in Quito and Guayaquil August 2007.
• Jury member for the Biennale: Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito, 2008 in the categories "Habitat social y Desarrollo" and "Medalla de Oro", the first category financed by the PROMESHA programme.

Project assistant at Housing Development & Management, for the advanced international trainning programmes  Conservation & Management of Historic Buildings,  Shelter Design and Development; and Harmonious Urbanization Development, all of them capacity building programmes supported by Sida. Coordinating, implementing and in some cases tutoring activities.

• Conservation & Management of Historic Buildings:
  Team work, planning and implementing of two regional continuation courses, one in Quito, Ecuador 2005, and one in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile 2008.
• Shelther Design and Development:
  Team work, implementing and tutoring  the regional continuation course in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2008.  
• Harmonious Urbanization Development:
  Team work, implementing and tutoring at the course held in Nanjing, China, on November 2008.

Teacher and tutor for undergraduate students both at the faculty of architecture and at the faculty for engineer, Helsingborg Campus; at Lund University

Exhibitions Designer of the HDM department exhibition for the World Urban Forum 4, Nanjing 2008. 

2002 – 2004 Architect office: Landskronagruppen AB, Sweden

Responsible at Landskronagruppen AB, for organizing the design process of an industrialized housing project in Malmö. Responsible for coordinating with the sub-consultants (Tyréns AB, Malmö; WSP, Lund; Bengt Dahlgren AB, Landskrona) and responsible for the quality control of drawings and documents delivered to the housing manufacturer Open House Productions AB.

1997 – 2002 Architect office: Philip Rasmussen Rådgivende Arkitekter, Denmark

Co-designer at Philip Rasmussen Rådgivende Arkitekter, private office Denmark for several projects: town planning, renovation in inner city areas, regional tourism development and design of roads, including bicycle road systems and road projects in coordination with the Danish road ministry.

1994 Architect School: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstakademiet, Human Settlements Department, Copenhagen, both for Danish students and Latin American professionals. Interchange in culture, architecture and language.  

1990 (March-May) Architect office: Grønbæk, Høgsted and Paludan, Denmark

Grønbæk, Høgsted and Paludan. Private office, Denmark. Architect (Trainee).

1988-1989 Architect office: Planarq Arquitectos, Colombia 

Planarq Arquitectos. Private Office, Colombia. Architect (Trainee during studies, thereafter employed architect)

Other activities
Seminars & Forums

• 2008 World Urban Forum WUF 4, Nanjing, China.
• 2007 N-AERUS (Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South) Conference, Grassroots-led Urban Development—Achievements, Potentials, Limitations, UCL, DPU, iied,  London, UK.
• 2006 The urban (F)actor. Changes facing sustainable urban development. Belgian Development Cooperation Agency– BTC CTB, Brussels.
• 2006 World Urban Forum WUF 3, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2005 N-AERUS (Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South) Promoting social inclusion in urban areas Polices and practices. Lund University.

Education

1984 – 1989 Architecture studies at Los Andes University Colombia. Master of Architecture

1986 – 1987 Exchange student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Department for Building Design.

1992 – 1994 Guest-student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Restoration Department, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Preparation for postgraduate studies)

1989 – today Various courses in computing and software for architecture, amongst others Archi-Cad, AutoCAD and graphic programs as Quark x-press, Illustrator Photoshop and Webdesign.

Professional skills

Languages: Spanish, Danish,  English and Swedish.
AutoCAD
Quark x-press,
Adobe graphic design programs as: Illustrator Photoshop, In design. 
Web design programs

 

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