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Juan Francisco Saldarriaga

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural technology
  • Digital media
  • Sustainability
  • Technology and art
  • Transportation planning
  • Urbanism
  • Visual representation

Juan Francisco Saldarriaga is a Senior Computational Designer at Google currently working on Google Earth. Previously, he led data and design research at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Saldarriaga specializes in data-driven design, leveraging GIS, visualization, and AI to solve complex urban challenges. He also teaches graduate-level workshops and seminars on mapping, advanced GIS, and data visualization.

In the past, Saldarriaga worked as a research scholar at the Center for Spatial Research and the Spatial Information Design Lab and as an architectural designer for Carlos Zapata Studio and D.G.T. Architects. Saldarriaga has a Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural technology
  • Digital media
  • Sustainability
  • Technology and art
  • Transportation planning
  • Urbanism
  • Visual representation

Publications

  • A Gravity Model Analysis Of Forced Displacement In Colombia

    Saldarriaga, Juan Francisco, and Yuan Hua. Cities 95, 2019.

  • Measuring Changes In Taxi Trips Near Infill Development And Issues For Curbside Management Of For-Hire Vehicles

    Saldarriaga, Juan Francisco, and David King. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2018.

  • Spatial Regulation Of Taxicab Services: Measuring Excess Travel From New York Cit

    Saldarriaga, Juan Francisco, and David King. Journal of Transport and Land Use 11, No. 1, 2018.

  • Visualizing Conflict: Possibilities For Urban Research

    Saldarriaga, Juan Francisco, Laura Kurgan, and Dare Brawley. Urban Planning 2, No. 1, 2017.

  • Access to Taxicabs for Unbanked Households: An Exploratory Analysis in New York City

    Saldarriaga, Juan Francisco, and David King. Journal of Public Transportation 20.1, 2017.

Classes

  • Intermediate Applications: Threads — Storytelling with Maps and Data

    ARCH6132

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • 2020 Journalism 360 Challenge

    Winner, AR for Everyone! Experiencing Augmented Reality News Stories in the Browser. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Online News Association, 2019.

  • Columbia University Collaboratory Grant

    Points Unknown: New Frameworks for Investigation and Creative Expression Through Mapping, principal investigator. School of Journalism and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, 2016–18.

  • CitiViz Competition

    Winner, best academic visualization, Conflict Urbanism: Colombia. Habitat X Change, UN Habitat 3 summit, 2016.

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • How We Die

    Data Through Design art exhibit, Made, NY Media Center, New York, 2018.

  • Conflict Urbanism: Colombia

    Oslo Architectural Triennale — On Residence, Oslo, Norway, 2016.

  • Here Now! Social Media and the Psychological City

    BRIC Arts and Media House, New York, 2015.
    Get It Louder, Beijing, China, 2013.
    Digitas, New York, 2012.

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