Elisa Valero
Elisa Valero Ramos (Ciudad Real, 1971) is a Spanish architect and professor at the High Technical Architecture School of the University of Granada (UGR). Her work has been recognized in 2018 with the Swiss Architectural Award. Biography. Education. She studied architecture at the High Technical Architecture School of the University of Valladolid (UVa), where she won the prize for the best academic record of the 1995-96 course and she graduated in 1996 with an Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award. In 2000 she received her doctorate in Architecture from the UGR; Later, she received a scholarship from the  Academy of Spain in Rome in 2003. Career. In 1996 she moved to Mexico to teach at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); here she completed her first assignment, the rehabilitation of the Los Manantiales restaurant in Xochimilco by architect Félix Candela. Since 1997 she has worked in the studio that bears her name, in Granada. Since 2012 she is professor of Architectural Design at the High Technical Architecture School of the University of Granada, becoming the third female professor of Architectural Design in the history of Spain. In the same university, she leads the research group RNM909 "Efficient  Housing and Urban Recycling"; she has carried out several projects related to architectural recycling and sustainability, researching new low-cost and low-energy construction systems. Other lines of research she develops are about light in architecture and architecture for children, especially in pediatric hospitals. Since 2012, she has worked with the Aladina Foundation, a Spanish foundation that seeks to improve the lives of children with cancer. She has supervised several PhD theses and research projects and is the author of nearly 200 works, including conference proceedings, book chapters and articles in scientific journals. She is a visiting professor at  the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. Awards and mentions. Among the awards received, there are the Honorable Mention of the arcVision Prize 2016, the Swiss Architectural Award 2017-2018 - first woman to win it - and the International Mention of the Prix des femmes architectes 2019. Other prizes are: