Mariana Ibañez is an Associate Pro- fessor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and the cofounder of Ibañez Kim, a genre-defiant practice that works with sensate materials, atmospheres, and new media to generate architecture, objects, and cities. Their work focuses on the disciplinary core of architecture and its growing periphery, with a focus on the relationship between technology, culture, and the environment. Mariana re- ceived her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London.