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 a book that has won several national and international awards; she is also co-author of the book “Ray Eames and Lina Bo Bardi: the journey as a laboratory”. She is the curator of the first exhibition held in Spain on the Italian architect: “Lina Bo Bardi: tupi or not tupi. Brazil 1946-1992”, Fundación Juan March, 2018. She recently participated in the documentary “Lina Bo Bardi. Del vidrio al barro” directed by Josep María Montaner and Jacobo Sucari (2021-2022). She combines her professional architectural practice with research, writing and teaching in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Sweden, Germany and Italy as an expert in art and architecture, urban regeneration, planning and design. She collaborates with the Clorindo Testa Foundation since 2020. Her latest projects “Musas de Vanguardia” (IG: musas_de_vanguardia, which is part of the travelling exhibition “Arquitectura y feminismos” at the Cervantes Institute) and “Houses by Women: Inhabiting Landscapes” lead her to deepen the theme of architecture, drawing and women, recurrent in her work.

She studied Art at the University of Mexico and Fine Arts at the Torcuato Ditella University in Buenos Aires. As a watercolourist she participates in exhibitions such as “Soñadoras errantes” (Madrid, 2022) or “Sintaxis del colour” (Buenos Aires, 2023).