Ivan Hernandez-Quintela is not a writer. He is not a poet. He studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He opened LUDENS, a small architectural firm specializing in educational spaces, in Mexico City in 2001. He has worked on two grant projects: URBAN PROSTHETICS - informal interventions in public space - with the support of Jóvenes Creadores FONCA and PLAYGROUND - a study on play as a participatory strategy to activate public space - with the support of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. He has published two books with the Universidad IberoAmericana Press: Guía para la navegación urbana and Acercamientos al espacio íntimo. He taught Drawing, Ephemeral Architecture, and Architectural Design courses at Universidad IberoAmericana from 2001 to 2018. In 2017, he moved out of Mexico City to Valle de Bravo, a small town in the forest two hours away from the city, to make a radical change of pace in his lifestyle. There, he began ARQUITECTURA HAIKU, a one-man architectural practice exploring small pavilions as frames and platforms to landscape and weathering minor events. As a creative meditation practice, he makes a small painting, writes a haiku poem,  makes a tiny sculpture, and writes a postcard to a friend, every day