Specialist in the history of Shell Structures of Modernity. She belongs to the FIB working group 16 that is currently developing the History of Structural Concrete and is the author of the Shells chapter. Great connoisseur of the life and work of some of its most important protagonists: Eduardo Torroja, Félix Candela, Ildefonso Sánchez del Río Pisón and Heinz Hossdorf. About them she has made a large number of publications, monographic exhibitions and given conferences at various universities and international associations; RIBA-Royal Institute of British Architects, Deutsche Museum Munich, TU – Technische Universität Berlin, EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sapienza Universitàt di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Colombian Academy of History of Engineering and Public Works, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
In 2011 she obtained the IASS Tsuboi Aware for the article, written with José Antonio Torroja, “Félix Candela: His vocational training at the university and his subsequent relationship with the Institute founded by Eduardo Torroja. In 2016 her book “Eduardo Torroja 1949: Strategy to Industrialize Housing in post-World War II” was awarded at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.
Curator of the Eduardo Torroja Museum, inaugurated in 2016 at the Zarzuela Racecourse (1934) in Madrid, one of Eduardo Torroja’s most iconic shell structures. The museum’s catalogue, due to international demand, has already been translated into 8 languages: Spanish, English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian.
In November 2024 she published the book “Eduardo Torroja. The man and his Legacy” which was Jose Antonio Torroja’s last wish to perpetuate the memory of his father. An unpublished biography of Eduardo Torroja in which she recounts interesting passages from his family and professional life that were hitherto unknown.
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