Keynote speakers
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Amelia Vilaplana
Amelia Vilaplana is an Architect and founder of Vilaplana Studio, an Architecture practice with a special interest in building meaningful links connecting people and spaces. Engaged with education, Amelia is a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and an Associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes. Amelia holds an MA in critical Theory and an…
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Anna Bofill Levi
PhD Architect and music composer. Since 1966, she has collaborated with Taller d’Arquitectura-Bofill for more than 15 years, on projects such as Walden 7, Le Lac and Antigone. In 1981, she set up her own studio where she has carried out projects and works especially for public institutions. Amongst these project, it is possible to…
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Anna Sokolina
Anna Sokolina, PhD is an architect, curator, Routledge featured author, founding chair of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group, Advisory Board member of H-SHERA Network, and IAWA Honorary advisor. Research focus: holistic genealogies, women’s contribution, and trajectories of global transitions in architecture; interdisciplinary inquiry to broadening networks across continents by advocating women’s work. Sokolina holds a PhD in…
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Carolina Quiroga
Architect specialized in Heritage Conservation, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Director of the Platform LINA Laboratory>Intervention + Architecture that teaches the Heritage and Gender course since 2018 and Feminist Architecture Design Studio. Professor of Design Studio and Heritage Rehabilitation (UBA/UB/UNSAM). Researcher at GADU Program-Gender, Architecture, Design and Urbanism- Institute of Human Spatiality UBA. Co-organizer of…
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Dafne Saldaña Blasco
Dafne Saldaña Blasco, Architect by ETSAB-UPC (2011), Master in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies, IIEDG (2015) and PhD in Gender Studies: Cultures, Societies and Politics, UAB (2021). Her line of research addresses the relationship between the design of spaces, gender inequalities and invisible learning during childhood. Co-founder and worker of Equal Saree, a collective of…
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Daniela Arias Laurino
Degree in Architecture from the University of the Republic of Uruguay (UdelaR). She holds a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) and a Master in Collective Housing Laboratory of the 21st Century from the same school. She is currently Associate Professor at the ETSAB…
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Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies Emerita at Yale University, writes about built environments and the politics of place. For over four decades, she has pioneered the study of vernacular buildings and urban landscapes to explore questions about gender, class, and race. Her award-winning books on the contested history of cities and…
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Elia Gutiérrez Mozo
María Elia Gutiérrez Mozo (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5368-7593). Architect from the University of Navarra, 1992. PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1999. Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Alicante (UA). Principal investigator of the project “Situated views: women’s architecture in Spain from peripheral perspectives, 1978-2008”, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2021-2023) and…
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Inés Moisset
Architect from the National University of Cordoba and PhD in Architectural Composition from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. Career Researcher at CONICET. Creator and coordinator of the collective Un día | una arquitecta. Bernardo Houssay Award from the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation for Scientific and Technological Research and Milka Bliznakov…
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Justine Clark
Justine Clark is an architectural editor, writer, researcher, advisor and advocate. She is a co-founder and director of Parlour: gender, equity, architecture. She leads the organisation’s event, advocacy and funding programs, and established the Parlour website, which she now edits with Susie Ashworth. Justine consults to built environment organisations, institutions and practices on policy, strategy…
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Lori Brown
Through design research, writing, and advocacy, Lori A. Brown FAIA is transforming architecture into a more diverse discipline responding to contemporary social and political conditions while raising awareness of women’s contributions to the built environment. She co-founded and leads ArchiteXX, www.architexx.org , a gender equity in architecture organization in New York City that works to…
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Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, and Visiting Professor at KU Leuven (Bélgium). She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2013), a Master of Science in Advance Architectural Design from Columbia University in the city of New…
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María Carreiro
María Carreiro (Ourense, 1961) holds a PhD in Architecture from the Universidade da Coruña, UDC. She teaches Architectural Projects at the ETS of Architecture of the UDC. She is a member of the GAUS group, Grupo de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Sostenible. Since 1989, she has worked as an associate architect in the professional office mccl…
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María Novas Ferradás
María Novas Ferradás is currently completing her Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Architectural Theory at Universidad de Sevilla focusing on the history of women’s organizations shaping Dutch post-war housing design (forthcoming, fall 2023). She graduated as architect at the Universidade da Coruña in Galicia, Spain, and holds master’s degrees in Applied Research in Feminist…
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Nuria Álvarez Lombardero
Nuria Álvarez Lombardero studied Architecture and Urbanism at ETSA Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Architectural Association of London (AA). She is co-director of Canales & Lombardero and of the Politics of Fabrication initiative. She has taught at Cambridge University, Bartlett University College of London, TEC Monterrey and the University of Seville, and is…
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Paola Zellner
Paola Zellner graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires and practiced architecture in Argentina and Uruguay. She obtained a Masters Degree from SCI-Arc; practiced in Los Angeles with Norman R. Millar Architects; and together with Jim Bassett started the design practice Zellner + Bassett. She is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, and Director of…
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Patricia Santos Pedrosa
Architect, researcher, professor, feminist, activist, and mother. Assistant Professor (University of Beira Interior, Architecture). Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ISCSP, University of Lisbon). Researcher and Project Leader of W@ARCH.PT – Women architects in Portugal (Portuguese Government Funding, 2018-2022). Co-founder and vice-president of Women in Architecture (Portugal). Member of APEM (Portuguese Association of…
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Serafina Amoroso
Serafina Amoroso is an architect (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2001), PhD in Architectural and Urban Design (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2006), MA in Advanced Architectural Design (ETSAM, Madrid, 2012), MA in Applied Research in Feminist, Gender and Citizenship Studies (Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, 2016). From 2007 to 2019, she has…
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Suzanne Ewing
Suzanne Ewing holds a Personal Chair of Architectural Criticism at the University of Edinburgh. She is an established leader in the field of architectural education and design culture and has much granular experience from over 20 years of teaching and research in Architecture programmes across a range of European Higher Education institutions. For the past…
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Verónica Benedet
Architect from the University of Buenos Aires, PhD from the University of the Basque Country. Post-doctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. Since 2007, she has been a member of the Research Group on Built Heritage (GPAC) and the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Landscapes and Heritage at the UPV/EHU. She coordinates the…
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Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio
Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio is a Puerto Rican architect, scholar-activist, co-founder/director of taller Creando Sin Encargos (tCSE), adjunct professor and Ph.D. candidate in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She completed a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies and is working in a certificate in Latin American Studies from…
Chairs
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Alejandra Estrada Galeano
Associate Professor Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. Junior Researcher Minciencias – Ministry of Education of Colombia. Peer reviewer in the areas of Architecture, Art and Urbanism. PhD in Architectural Communication, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Suma Cum Laude qualification. Master in Aesthetics (emphasis on Semiotics and hermeneutics), Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Areas of research: Theory and…
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Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima
Architect and urban planner graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1994. Master’s degree in Urban Environmental Structures from the same institution in 1999. PhD at the Faculty of Education of USP in 2004. Post-doctorate at the School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, England in…
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Ana Navarro
Ana Navarro Bosch, architect by the ETS Arquitectura (Universitat Politècnica de València) since 2001, PhD in Architecture in 2016 with the doctoral thesis “Estrategias de reciclaje arquitectónico” focuses her professional practice on teaching architectural projects at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and research at the Instituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio, both at the…
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Atxu Amann y Alcocer
Atxu Amann y Alcocer is an architect from the ETSAM where she coordinates the master’s degree and PhD programme in Architectural Communication. At the school, she teaches and conducts research in conjunction with a feminist and more-than-human critical practice.
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Cándido López
Cándido López (A Coruña, 1962) holds a PhD in Architecture from the Universidade da Coruña, UDC. He teaches in the Area of Urban and Territorial Planning at the ETS of Architecture of the UDC. He is a member of the GAUS group, Grupo de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Sostenible. Since 1989, he has worked as an…
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Débora Domingo-Calabuig
Débora Domingo-Calabuig is an architect PhD and professor of Architectural Design at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Her interests include the methods, means, and impact of architectural research. Her research focuses on the social consideration in architecture and urban design, particularly on the open design processes of the 60s and 70s and concerning changes in…
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Eva Gil Lopesino
Born in Madrid, she is an architect (2009) from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and the TU Delft, Master in Advanced Architectural Projects (2012) with honours and is currently developing her doctoral thesis at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on the relationship between the history of computation and architectural devices, within the…
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Eva Morales Soler
PhD in Architecture (2017). Master in Environmental Anthropology. Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Malaga (2022), since 2013 attached to the area of Architectural Projects. Co-founding partner of Cotidiana S.C.A. located in Seville. She was co-founder of the architecture studio lapanadería (2003-2013) which won the Arquía Próxima 2010 Award, finalist in the X…
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Helena Souto
Maria Helena Souto, Associate Professor at IADE-Universidade Europeia, holds a PhD in Art Sciences (Universidade de Lisboa) and a master’s degree in Art History (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Her research field is the Portuguese Design History, with a focus on the relationship between Portuguese Design and Gender Studies. On these subjects, she has published several…
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Inés Novella
Urban architect and Master in Equal Opportunities, she is a researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Gender Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her two lines of research address, on the one hand, equality and…
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Laura Lizondo
Laura Lizondo-Sevilla (Valencia, 1979). Graduated in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2003, and PhD in Architecture since 2012. She has taught at the Department of Architectural Projects of the UPV since 2008, currently as a Lecturer. Director of the Cátedra Blanca Valencia since 2019. Predoctoral research…
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Lia Gil Antunes
Architect and researcher (dARQ-UCoimbra & CIEG / ISCSP-ULisboa), she has been working on the history of architecture and the construction of houses, cities and territories with a gender perspective, based on intersectional feminisms. She is currently a doctoral student at dARQ-UC, on As Mulheres do Processo SAAL (1974-1976) em Portugal: Arquitetas e moradoras pelo direito…
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Maite Palomares
Maite Palomares, Architect, PhD and Master’s Degree in Architectural Heritage Conservation, all of them at Universitat Politècnica de València. The Master’s Final Project was awarded by the Career Development by the Universitat Politècnica de València Official Master’s Degree in Architectural Heritage Conservation (2014). She also is University Specialist in University Pedagogy by the Universitat Politècnica…
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María Sánchez Llorens
Architect and Doctor in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Associate Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at the ETSAM of the UPM. Latin Americanist expert and expert on the work of the architect Lina Bo Bardi. Her doctoral thesis “Objects and collective actions by Lina Bo Bardi” has been turned into…
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Mizoocky Mota
Architect graduated from UNPHU with a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and Sustainability from the University Institute of Architecture of Venice (IUAV). She is currently General Coordinator and professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University (UNPHU) of architectural design, urbanism and sustainability. In the public sector, she…
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Ruth Verde Zein
Architect, Ph.D. Professor of Theory and Design at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil. Member of CICA – International Committee of Architectural Critics. Member of SAH – Society of Architectural Historians, EAHN – European Architectural Histories Network, and DOCOMOMO International, former coordinator of Docomomo-Brazil/São Paulo’s chapter. Former editor of Projeto magazine. Has participated in several…
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Verónica Rosero
Co-founder of I+D+A Estudio de Arquitectura, an office that combines research, dissemination and architecture. PhD in Architecture from the University of Alcalá, 2015, Cum Laude and International Doctorate Mention by research stay at the University of Delft, The Netherlands. Master’s Degree in Architecture and City Design with specialisation in Technological Innovations and Projects from the…
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Zaida Muxí
She holds a PhD in Architecture and teaches Urban Planning at the ETSAB-UPC. Between 2004 and 2014 she co-directed with Josep Maria Montaner the “Master Laboratorio de la vivienda del siglo XXI” at the UPC. In March 2023, she has been appointed to occupy the Federico Mariscal Extraordinary Chair at the Faculty of Architecture of…