Kevin Malca Kevin Malca

Kevin Malca is a Peruvian licensed architectural designer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on the intersections of architecture, heritage, and landscape.

Through Qosmos Studio, his design practice, he develops contemporary projects in heritage landscapes in collaboration with local communities, his work includes public projects for the Peruvian Ministries of Housing, Culture, Housing and Tourism on sites of historical and ecological significance.

Building on this design work, his research approaches architecture as a process rather than an isolated object, understanding buildings as part of broader landscapes and the forces that shape them over time. This perspective opens opportunities to rethink the material, spatial, and temporal dimensions of design by integrating ancestral knowledge and methods from other disciplines. In academia, he has taught and served as a guest critic in courses on adaptive reuse, interventions in historical sites, public space, and construction technology in Peru and the United States.

He has contributed to award-winning projects and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams supported by major grants and fellowships in the United States and Peru, including the Rowe Fellowship (IIT), the Research and Creation Fund (PUCP), the Bicentennial Generation Scholarship, the MIT Graduate Fellowship, and various innovation and arts funding programs. He is currently the Jeanne & John Rowe Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, and a faculty member in the Master of Architectural Design Processes (MAPP) at PUCP. Malca holds a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).