Architect, Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM - UPM, 2008 Director of the STUDIO 1 at Columbia University in New York. Kengo Kuma Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. Master Tutor at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia IAAC. Mireia Luzárraga directs the TAKK architecture and research studio, based in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat and New York. Her work focuses on investigating how architecture can catalyze the development of more democratic lives by incorporating feminist thought, posthuman studies, and political ecology into spatial practices. Her work has received the Design Vanguard award 2024, the Best Archilover Project award in 2023, the special jury award at the FAD Awards 2023, the COAM award 2022, the Temps de les Arts award 2022 and the FAD award in 2010. She has also been a finalist for the Archdaily’s Best Building of the Year awards in 2024, a finalist at the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, a finalist in the ROOM 2023 awards and a finalist in the FAD awards in 2023 and 2019. Luzárraga’s work is featured in some of the most prestigious architecture museum collections worldwide, including the FRAC Center Val-de-Loire, the Vitra Design Museum, the Mak Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, and the Disseny Hub in Barcelona. TAKK’s work spans both the public and private spheres. Among her notable public clients are the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles, and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona. In the private sphere, she has undertaken projects for Hermès, Moncler, Vitra, and Swatch. Luzárraga’s work frequently appear in specialized forums both nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale 2023 (Slovenia pavilion), 2021 (Spain pavilion), 2014 (Spain pavilion), the San Sebastián Biennale 2023 and 2017, Design Miami 2023, Salone del Mobile in Milan 2023, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022, the Roma Architecture Festival 2022, the Orléans Biennale 2022, the Maia Biennale in Porto 2019, the Rabat Biennale 2019, and the Oslo Triennale 2016 in its Academy section. Luzárraga has also lectured at various institutions, including the Royal Academy of Arts in 2024, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Boston in 2023, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in 2023, the University of Applied Arts die Angewandte in Vienna in 2023, the University of Pennsylvania in 2023, and the ETH in Zurich in 2022. Finally, in 2023, TAKK was chosen by Architectural Design magazine as one of the 100 best Architecture and design teams of the year internationally.