Oscar Lopez graduated from Arizona State University with both his Undergraduate 2009) and Master’s degree in Architecture 2012) During his time at ASU Oscar also received a minor in Religious Studies and Conflict. This area of study would later become the topic of his thesis and the winning proposal for a research travel grant Class of ’77 Travel Grant) that sent him to Northern Ireland to study conflict and living in contention and the mediating role of architecture and memory. During his undergraduate career, Oscar traveled through Italy for 6-weeks studying the work of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. During Oscar’s undergraduate career, he interned in Barcelona for 3 months as a part of EMBT Enric Miralles) and during his graduate career he mentored for 4 months under Juhani Pallasmaa during his tenure at Taliesin West 2012) Upon graduation in 2012, Oscar worked for StarkJames Design+Build in Scottsdale Arizona, working on design build projects of varied scale. It was during his time with StarkJames that Oscar practiced both in the field and in the studio, training as a master builder. Oscar then went on to work for Rick Joy Architects in Tucson, AZ. It was during his tenure at Rick Joy Architects that Oscar focused his training around materiality and experience, and how spaces and architecture are “lived in”. Oscar was a part of Rick Joy Architects for close to 3-years before he left to start is own design build studio s a c e BUREAU, focusing on projects in both Phoenix and in Tucson Arizona. Since founding s a c e BUREAU in 2016 Oscar and his practice have received 8 AIA Awards for built projects on the local, state, and regional AIA level.