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 aphenomenological 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 ofemotional 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 (2018-2025), lecturer, tutor, course leader, and examiner in the Master’s Programme in Architectural Lighting Design. Co-Iniciator of the Studio Architecture and Daylight as well as running Introduction and Advanced Seminar Courses at a Master level for the Architecture Education at KTH. For this pedagogical and academic contribution, I was awarded KTH’s Pedagogic Prize in 2024.

I have acted as aguest 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 alighting designer at Light Bureau and asHead 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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