Arámbula-Mercado, Anette

Anette Arámbula Mercado is an architect, educator and researcher, with an academic focus centered on architectural criticism. Her professional trajectory has been developed mainly at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she began as an assistant in the Master¿s degree in Architecture and later joined the Monterrey Campus as a full-time faculty member. She has taught courses in architectural theory, history, applied research and design fundamentals, and has held academic leadership roles such as Director of the Bachelor¿s Program in Architecture, where she promoted a critical and interdisciplinary educational vision focused on students¿ holistic development. She studied architecture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she earned the degree of Architect with Honors and later the Master¿s degree in Architecture with Distinction, having obtained the highest GPA in her graduating class. She also completed three years of studies in Medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, an experience that enriched her training and allowed her to link both disciplines: in both architecture and medicine, the intervention in complex systems requires structural, functional and ethical knowledge. From this interdisciplinary foundation, her academic work has focused on the critical analysis of the technical, formal, historical and ornamental fundamentals of architecture, with emphasis on its material and contextual dimension. Her lines of work include the study of architectural modernity from a tectonic perspective, the documentation of regional construction systems, comparative analysis as a pedagogical tool, and the assessment of built heritage as a source of knowledge. In her courses, she combines theoretical classes with fieldwork, comparative exercises and immersive digital tools, in order to foster informed architectural judgment. She has also collaborated with students in heritage documentation projects. She has participated in institutional and national research projects such as the PAICYT project ¿Endogenous and Exogenous Causes of Modern Architecture in Monterrey¿, directed by Dr. Armando V. Flores Salazar, and the PAPIIT-DGAPA-UNAM project on Spanish exile in Mexican architecture, coordinated by Dr. Juan Ignacio ¿Dino¿ del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, contributing with analysis, documental records and critical reflection. She is currently involved in the IFE Experiential Classroom ¿ Living Lab & Data Hub program, focused on educational innovation through immersive technologies, neuro-cognitive sensors and futures thinking. Within this framework, she has designed learning experiences that invite students to question the persistence of dominant construction systems and to explore architectural scenarios from a broader disciplinary understanding. She has undertaken two doctoral programs, currently on hold: the PhD in History and Critical Analysis of 20th-Century Architecture at the University of Navarra (Spain), where she obtained, with a grade of sobresaliente, the Research Proficiency Status (Suficiencia Investigadora) in the field of Architectural Design, leading to the Diploma de Estudios Avanzados; and the PhD in Philosophy with a focus on Architecture and Urban Affairs at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in which she completed all course requirements with a GPA of 97.4/100. Both programs have enriched her work through complementary methodological perspectives. She is a member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Nuevo León (CANL) and DOCOMOMO México, national chapter of the organization dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the Modern Movement. Her current work is oriented toward strengthening teaching, critical research and university-level training in architecture as a cultural, technical and intellectual discipline.