Agustina Alaines is an Argentine-Spanish architect, designer, and academic. Born in Buenos Aires, she graduated as an architect from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU, UBA) and specialized in Parametric Design (University of Palermo). After receiving a full scholarship, she moved to Los Angeles (USA) to study the Master of Science in Architectural Technologies at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc), where she graduated with honours.Agustina has extensive academic experience. She has lead and designed syllabus for architectural design studios at FADU, UBA (Buenos Aires); she has been professor of speculative architecture and experimental urbanism at SCI_Arc (Los Angeles), of Computational Thinking at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota) and of the final project of the Design degree at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires).After gaining experience in renowned studios in Argentina and the United States, where she worked as Design Director and Project Manager, Agustina recently founded NAAR: her speculative architecture studio. She investigates the relationship between ARtificial NATURE and NAtural ARchitecture. NAAR develops responsive systems that exist at the intersection of physical and virtual space, graphic and industrial design, science, technology, and art.Agustina gives lectures and participates as jury by invitation in different universities. Her professional and academic work have been internationally published across different media.