Zaida Muxí Martínez (born 1964 in
Buenos Aires
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) is an Argentine
architect
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and city planner who graduated in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...
,
Muxí earned her doctorate from the Upper Technical School of Architecture of Seville
[Currículum en el portal La Mujer Construye ] and later served as professor in the Upper Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona.
She is co-director, with Josep Maria Montaner, of the Máster Laboratory of the House of the 21st century of the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
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. Muxí collaborates in the supplement Cultura/s of the journal ''
La Vanguardia
' (; , Spanish for "The Vanguard") is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan (Spanish copy is automatically translated into Catalan). It has its headquarters in Barcelona and i ...
'' Her body of work is characterized by her experience of space and gender.
Muxí occupied the penultimate place in the list of Ricard Gomà Carmona (
ICV) of the candidature in Barcelona for the
municipal Elections of Spain of 2011.
Publications
From 2009 she directed ''visions'', the magazine of the Upper Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona.
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References
EXTERNAL REFERENCES
* Méndez, Alexis C. “Género y Arquitectura: Una Perspectiva Desde Lo Conceptual: Conversando Con Zaida Muxí = Gender and Architecture: A Conceptual Perspective: Talking with Zaida Muxí.” ''Arquitectura y Urbanismo'' 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 71–76.
* Muxí, Zaida. “Private public space: Maremagnum.” In ''Transforming Barcelona,'' edited by Tim Marshall, 162–163. London: Routledge, 2004.
* Muxí, Zaida. “Women Architects in the Modern Movement,
yCarmen Espegel.” ''ZARCH : Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism'', no. 13 (December 1, 2019): 301.
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Argentine feminists
Argentine women architects
Architects from Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires alumni
1964 births
Living people
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