International Lecture Series: Anna Puigjaner

Open lecture 'Who cares?' by Anna Puigjaner (MAIO Architects). The lecture is part of the ‘International Lecture Series’ at the Royal Danish Academy where prominent international architects are invited to present their views on significant topics in architecture. 

With the title ‘Who cares?’, the Barcelona based architect, researcher and co-founder of MAIO, Anna Puigjaner will discuss her latest work relating to alternative and inclusive domestic architectures. The architectural discipline has constructed, under the umbrella of an alleged “normality”, a spatial regime that is unequal. From the perspective of non-conforming bodies and acknowledging the intersectional condition of the self, this lecture will present transgressions of heteronormative configurations of collective living. 

About Anna Puigjaner
Anna Puigjaner is a Ph.D. architect and researcher, co-founder of MAIO, an architectural office based in Barcelona. Her work is focused on alternative and inclusive domestic architectures able to redefine former biased structures.

She is currently Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich. Formerly, she taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University, at the Royal College of Arts, London, and at the Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB/ETSAV - UPC.

She has also lectured at Yale University, Harvard University, FAU Lisboa, Brussels School of Architecture UCL-LOCI, UCLA, among other universities. Her writings have been published in Architectural Review, Real Review, Harvard Design Magazine and PLOT among others.

She has been finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative 2016, granted by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in 2018, and awarded for her research ‘Kitchenless City’ with the Wheelwright Prize 2016, Harvard GSD.