Rodrigo Eduardo Muro Avendano

I hold degrees in Architecture (MSc), Lighting Design (MSc), and Industrial Design (MSc), and possess extensive international professional experience in the fields of architecture and lighting design. Since 1997, I have worked both independently and within leading practices in Mexico City, Cancún, Barcelona, and Stockholm.

My research interests revolve around the complex interplay between light, space, and the human subject. I adopt a phenomenological approach, in which light—both natural and artificial—is understood as a fundamental condition shaping our perception and emotional experience of architecture. Within this perspective, architecture emerges as a fabric of socio-psychological and cultural relations, where both the user and the built environment simultaneously affect and define one another through a dynamic process of mutual interrelation.

I am currently pursuing doctoral research focusing on the role of light in the creation of emotional architecture. The aim of this work is to construct a bridge between lighting research and architectural research, thereby developing new insights into how light can be conceptualized as a central dimension of architectural experience and as a key factor in the design of the built environment.

Since 2011, I have served at the KTH School of Architecture as program director, lecturer, tutor, course leader, and examiner in the Master’s Programme in Architectural Lighting Design. For this pedagogical and academic contribution, I was awarded KTH’s Pedagogic Prize in 2024.

I have acted as a guest lecturer at several universities, including SAUL (Limerick), TU Graz (Austria), UNAM (Mexico), the Lighting Research Center RPI (USA), Stockholm University, and Umeå University, and I have been a speaker at various international conferences.

Previously, I worked as a lighting designer at Light Bureau and as Head of the Light Bureau Academy at ÅF/AFRY, where I combined professional practice with the strategic development of knowledge in lighting design.

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