Mara S.

Mara Sánchez Llorens, PhD. Architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) is a PhD Assistant Professor at the Graphic Ideation Department at Architecture School at UPM. Sánchez develops her professional architectural practice combining her work at COMA, and research and teaching at UPM. Sánchez is author of architecture and art texts in publications as RA, Rita, Cuadernos del Paisaje, Circo or Metalocus. She cooperates as a Latin America expert with AECI in Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. She gives many talks in national and foreign universities and institutions as Columbia University of New York and delivered papers in congresses about lots of topics as Women in Architecture and Art. Her celebrated PhD on the work of Lina Bo Bardi “Objects and Collective Actions of Lina Bo Bardi” (Summa Cum Laude, UPM, 2010) received an honorific mention of Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU), Cádiz, 2012; BIAU, São Paulo, gave its publication by the Nobuko Publishing House the first prize in 2016. Curator and museographer of exhibitions as “Lina Bo Bardi, Tupi or not Tupi? Brazil 1946-1992” —its catalogue received recognition by BIAU, Asuncion, 2019— and “Genealogies of Art” —best exhibition 2019 by the media— at Juan March Foundation, Madrid.