María Prieto
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Maria Prieto is Galician yet she feels as if she is from everywhere and nowhere. She is an architect and a writer travelling between Madrid and London. Her work and writings have been published internationally, including journals such as Volume, Agglutinations (Online), eVolo, PIN-UP Magazine, books as from Tate Liverpool, and the Ministry of Housing of Spain, and exhibition catalogues as from Marcelino Botín Foundation (as an artist-in-residence with Antoni Muntadas), and from 2008 Cultures (Settings for Change) from the Ministry of Culture of Spain. Since 2004 Maria has been conducting an interview-project on Architecture and Politics with an open list of thinkers and artists, including Bruno Latour, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Chantal Mouffe (with Elise Youn), Olafur Eliasson, and Elizabeth Grosz. She has lectured at Columbia University, the Interactive Institute NVISION Studio, Medialab-Prado, Seville School of Architecture, and the Foundation of the Architectural Association of Madrid, and presented her research at MIT, Berkeley, Yale, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, IUAV Istituto di Storia di Architettura (Aula Tafuri), the Menéndez Pelayo International University, and the Spanish National Research Council-CSIC. Maria received an MSAAD from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, in Planning and Preservation, and is currently doing her Ph.D. at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre-MARC. She is founding director of ARCHITECTUREPUBLIC, an international research agency for architecture and publishing collaborations, where she seeks to instigate radical hands-on on-hand practices to make vulnerable realities “in-visible, again” in the interplay of public service, knowledge production and projection of architecture.