Ana Falú was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1947, the granddaughter of Syrian immigrants. She is the sister of singer Juan Falú, disappeared student activist , and lawyer and politician Dr. Jose Ricardo Falú. She studied architecture at the National University of Tucumán's Faculty of Architecture and graduated a few months before the 1976 coup d'état. This event marked her life, as she had to leave the country, along with her husband and two children, traveling first to Brazil and then, because of Operation Condor, to the Netherlands. Falú became involved in politics as a student, through groups interested in the living conditions of the poorest sectors of the population, visiting towns and neighborhoods without conditions of habitability. This helped her to start work on social housing and habitat conditions. In her final year's project she developed some houses for a sugar cooperative in which she also proposed using low-cost technologies such as cane bagasse as a material to make prefabricated panels.