Jose Gutierrez
Architectural Designer
2306 20th Street, 79411 Lubbock, Texas (806) 268-2847 | jose.gutierrez@ttu.edu
Education Skills
2024-2026 2019-2024
Experience
2025-2026
2023-2025
Awards + Honors
Master of Architecture
Texas Tech University (TTU) | Lubbock, Texas
International Study : 2025 Texas8 International Design Charrate | Siena, Italy
One of eight students selected from each accredited architectural gradute programs in texas
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Texas Tech University (TTU) | Lubbock, Texas
2023-2024
Teaching Assistant
Texas Tech University (TTU) | Lubbock, Texas
First year design studio Instructor. Guided studios of first year architecture students. Was directly responsible for instruction, grading, critique, and coordination of a studio section
Architectural Intern
Corgan Architects | Amarillo, Texas
Worked part time throughout the year assisting in several projects. Tasks included construction documentation, life safety planning, code analysis, design, schematics, rendering/ represention, client visioning
Architectural Intern
Corgan Architects | Dallas, Texas
Two summer internships with education team. Tasks included construction documentation, life safety planning, code analysis, design, schematics, rendering/represention, client visioning
Texas8 Representative
Winner of competition to become selected representative of TTU college of arch. in international design charrate Siena, Italy
Design Leader Ship Alliance Award Nomination
AIAS Chapter President
Revit
Rhino
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
D5 render
Enscape Autocad
Introduction
Jose Gutierrez
I am a designer from Cali, Colombia, currently completing my Master of Architecture at Texas Tech University, graduating in May 2026. My academic path has been shaped by a commitment to rigorous design inquiry and leadership within the architectural community.
Over the past three years, I have accumulated more than 1,500 NCARB hours through professional practice, gaining experience across multiple phases of design. During my graduate studies, I served as President of AIAS, where I worked to expand student engagement, foster connections between academia and practice, and support initiatives that
strengthened the culture of the school. My work and research have been recognized through publication in CROP, and I was selected as a graduate representative for the Texas 8 design charrette in Siena, Italy. I also currently serve as a studio instructor for first-year design, where I guide, mentor, and instruct students on foundational design development.
Contents
Introduction
Combinatory Formations
Norislk, Russia
Fractured Frames
Lubbock, Texas
Timber Corridor
Lubbock, Texas
Denver Central Market Apartments
Denver, Colorado
Professional Work
Combinatory Formations
An Introduction
Combinatory Formations explores architecture as a process of organization. Beginning with a set of primitives—point, object, surface, and line—the projects in this section use abstraction and encounter as a generative tool to produce formal and spatial systems.
Rather than relying on a predetermined grid, form emerges through combination, accumulation, chance, and constraint. Primitives are treated as individually simple elements whose interactions produce complex organizational ecologies when combined within a broader site condition. Limits and parameters are introduced as a way to explore specific relationships, interactions, or as a response to external conditions
This section presents two iterations of the methodology. Formation one investigates combinatory organization as a spatial and formal excercise, resolving itself as a purely abstract system. Formation two refines the same workflow and results in a spatial narrative which has the ability to respond to external conditions, thus leading to a speculative form placed in an urban condition.
Formation 01 Top View
Formation 01 Elevation
Formation 01 Perspective
Combinatory Formations
Square Non Grid
Formation 02 develops from an interest in balance, contrast, and soft boundaries. The work originates from images of territorial transformation—river deltas carrying sediment through mass, mines carving through the earth, and coastlines eroded to the edge of collapse.
These references inform a combinatory logic centered on absence and accumulation. Mass is subtracted, compressed, and reconnected, allowing complexity to emerge as an act of subtraction and deposition. The system operates within both tension and balance. Positive versus negative. The brazen carving of the site juxtaposed with the smoothness and scale of the surface.
The square operates as a stabilizing condition, holding the system together without imposing a regulating grid. Object morphologies and imposed parameters test how relationships register at multiple scales, establishing an organizational system. From this system an infinite set of schemes/formations can be generated. Each unique while still sharing an organizational logic.
Photography by Daniel Pruske
Post Production by Jose Gutierrez
Scheme
Through the combinatory formation workflow, hundreds of spatial schemes were generated from a consistent set of parameters. Rather than pursuing a singular idealized form, the process foregrounded variation as a design tool, allowing patterns, thresholds, and organizational
tendencies to emerge through repetition and difference. This accumulation of iterations revealed latent logics within the system, reframing design not as the production of a single solution, but as the cultivation of a field of possible architectures.
Schemes
Combinatory Formations
Norislk, Russia
Norilsk sits like a moon of nickel and ice at the edge of the world. Toxins swim in the cold as metal clings to the air slowly consumed with every breath. Silence settles across the tundra broken only by the crunch of boots marching into the depths of the earth.
Beneath its frozen surface molten metal flows like a river forever bound to fullfill the needs of its population. Here, an eerie beauty unfolds. one born of contradiction, where the earth bleeds metals and the warmth forever fights an endless winter.
A MOON OF NICKLE AND ICE
Speculation
Forged by labor and isolation, Norilsk’s people shaped rituals to withstand the darkness. The legacy of the gulag lingers in brick and bone, but the culture presses forward. In polar plunges and steamfilled bathhouses, the body is restored. Light and warmth become a precious currency of which there can never be enough. Absence is felt here.
Fractured Frames
Lubbock, Texas
Fractured Frames is a therapeutic equestrian center that explores healing through spatial disjunction, metaphor, and landscape. The project is organized around a bent axis that acts as an attractor to hold shared program space.
Fragmented volumes drift outward along the axis to form equine and support zones. These distinct programmatic blocks are deliberately separated and connected through a series of courtyards, voids, and open-air passages that interrupt the flow of space and encourage sensory transitions.
Drawing from natural processes like erosion and glacial calving, the project creates a rhythmic sequence of enclosure and exposure, designed to mirror and celebrate the therapeutic journey of the individuals it serves.
Overview
The program is divided into a series of buildings that extend across the site. This allows for separation of function as well as creating moments for experience regularly throughout the project.
L1 @ 12'-0"
L1 @ 12'-0"
Building B Elevation
Section B
View from Sensory Trail
Timber Corridor
Business Incubator
The Timber Corridor is an urban micro-manufacturing facility constructed from CLT, combining together spaces for artisans, vertical farming, and hemp product production. The design explores the concept of the urban corridor. The building mass is divided to create a central public pathway, creaating ecological, environmental, and social impact. The facade plays with layers of transparency, transitioning between clear, semi-transparent, and opaque sections, offering glimpses of activity within.
Internally, vertical connections and split floors, voids, and open spaces encourage visual curiosity, transforming the interior into a visual corridor that invites discovery and reflects the collaborative emphasis of the corridor and internal systems.
Lubbock
View of artisan work space
URBAN CORRIDOR MICRO-CLIMATE
CLT FLOOR PLANELS
SCREEN SYSTEM
ALUM. PANELING
BEAM + GIRDER
GLAZING
a: double glaze window system
b: j-clip
c: .5” aluminum cladding system
d: fluid applied vapor barrier
e: 2” foam rigid insulation
e: .5” plywood sheithing
f: 5-ply clt wall system
a: aluminum panel finish
b: fluid applied vapor barrier
c: 1.5” rigid foam insulation
d: 1/2” plywood sheithing
e: 5.5” batt insulation
f: 3ply clt ceiling assembly
g: aluminum fascia & soffit assembly
a: 10x5’ aluminum panel cladding
b: 1/2” sheithing
c: 3ply clt wall assembly
d: 10x5’perforated screen panel
e: wood floor finish
f: 40mm screed
g: 1/8” acousting floor padding
h: 3ply clt floor panel
j: 1/2” insulation
k: acoustic ceiling board
m: wall mounted track
STUDIO
VEG. FARMING
HEMP FARMING
WOODSHOP
GERMINATION
BUSINESS
REST AREA
LABORATORY
HEMP INSULATION
Denver Central Market Apartments
Denver, Colorado
Located in the heart of Denver’s vibrant RiNo district, the apartment complex stands on top of Denver Central Market. Designed with a focus on an active lifestyle and wellbeing, it seamlessly merges into the urban fabric of Denver while offering a haven for residents who seek a dynamic lifestyle. The building’s main feature is its bike ramp which wraps around its face and extends into the existing bike lanes. Providing a Direct connection between building and city.
Professional Work
PREFINISHED METAL COPING
2" EXPANSION JOINT W/ METAL COVER, REF. STRUCTURAL
EXISTING ROOF
EXISTING WALL TO REMAIN
CORNER
EXPANSION JOINT W/ TRANSITION PLATE
EXISTING FLOOR TO REMAIN
CEILING AS SCHEDULED
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/ TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
2" EXPANSION JOINT W/ METAL COVER, REF. STRUCTURAL
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
FINISH FLOOR AS SCHEDULED
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
CEILING AS SCHEDULED
BR-2 ACCENT BRICK; REF. ELEVATION
2" EXPANSION JOINT W/ METAL COVER, REF. STRUCTURAL
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
INSULATED CONCRETE FORM WALL SYSTEM
FINISH FLOOR AS SCHEDULED
CONT. THRU-WALL FLASHING W/WEEPS @24" O.C.
FLOOR
ICF WALL
CONTINUOUS THUWALL FLASHING W/ WEEPS @ 24" O.C.
GYP. CORNER BEAD W/ CAULKING WINDOW AS SCHEDULED
5/8' PAINTED GYP. BOARD
CONTINUOUS THUWALL FLASHING W/ WEEPS @ 24" O.C.
GYP. CORNER BEAD W/ CAULKING
SCHEDULED COUNTERTOP & MILLWORK
EXPANSION JOINT, REF. STRUCTURAL
EXISTING PARAPET
EXISTING ROOF TO REMAIN
NEW ICF WALL W/ BRICK VENEER
ACOUSTICAL PANEL, REF. INTERIOR ELEVATIONS
METAL SOFFIT, REF. RCP
NEW CONCRETE SLAB
GROUND SLOPING AWAY FROM WALL, SEE CIVIL DRAWINGS
NEW DOOR AS SCHEDULED
EXISTING FLOOR TO REMAIN
EXISTING WALL TO REMAIN ACT CEILING REF. REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
1
TPO FLASHING
CONTINUOUS VAPOR BARRIER OVER CEMENTITIOUS BACKER BOARD, TYP.
TAPERED INSULATION
PREFINISHED METAL COPING
PREFINISHED METAL COPING W/ METAL CLEAT
TPO FLASHING MEMBRANE W/ FASTNERS TO WRAP PARAPET WALL
TAPERED INSULATION W/ FASTNERS
WOOD BLOCKING
CONTINUOUS VAPOR BARRIER OVER CEMENTITIOUS BACKER BOARD, TYP.
TAPERED INSULATION
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
ICF WALL W/ BRICK VENEER TO MATCH EXISTING
CONT. THRU-WALL FLASHING W/ WEEPS @ 24" O.C.
CONTINUOUS PERFORATED DRAIN WITH GRAVEL
CONCRETE FOOTING, SEE STRUCTURAL DRAWINGS GROUND SLOPING AWAY FROM WALL, SEE CIVIL DRAWINGS
BR-2 ACCENT BRICK; REF. ELEVATION
FLUID APPLIED AIR BARRIER
CONT. THRU-WALL FLASHING W/WEEPS@ 24" O.C.
PREFINISHED METAL COPING
3/4" TREATED PLYWOOD
NEW ROOF SYSTEM AS SPECIFIED
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION BR-2 ACCENT BRICK; REF. ELEVATION
PREFINISHED METAL COPING ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
NEW ROOF SYSTEM AS SPECIFIED 3/4" TREATED PLYWOOD
FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
NEW CEILING AS SCHEDULED
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
FABRIC WRAPPED ACCOUSTICAL WALL PANEL. REF. FINISH SCHEDULE INSULATED CONCRETE FORM WALL SYSTEM; REF. STRL
FLOOR FINISH AS SCHEDULED
ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
ACCENT BRICK; REF. ELEVATION
ST-1 ACCENT STONE; REF. ELEVATION
FLUID APPLIED AIR BARRIER FACE BRICK, BR-1 W/TIES AS SCHEDULED; REF. ELEVATION
CONT. THRU-WALL FLASHING W/WEEPS@
NEW CEILING AS SCHEDULED FABRIC WRAPPED ACCOUSTICAL WALL PANEL. REF. FINISH SCHEDULE
INSULATED CONCRETE FORM WALL SYSTEM; REF STRL
5/8" PTD GYP. BOARD
FLOOR FINISH AS SCHEDULED
