Moises Gonzales
Moises Gonzales
Professor, Urban Design
Architect, planner, and scholar Moises Gonzales partners with communities across New Mexico to preserve cultural landscapes and advance community-based design.
Architect, planner, and scholar Moises Gonzales partners with communities across New Mexico to preserve cultural landscapes and advance community-based design. His work bridges architecture, urban planning, and heritage preservation, focusing on acequia and land-grant communities throughout the region.
Rooted in his New Mexico upbringing, Gonzales draws from both traditional building practices and modern urban design to explore how people, land, and culture shape one another. His research emphasizes Querencia-a love of place-as a framework for understanding community identity, resilience, and design.
Through his teaching and fieldwork, he guides students to see how planning and architecture can serve communities through collaboration and respect. His philosophy-“consciousness minus ego equals community-engaged scholarship”-reflects his belief that meaningful design emerges from humility and co-production with the people it serves.
