Mariona Benedito Ribelles

Mariona Benedito Ribelles is an Architect graduated from ETSA Barcelona in 2000, 2007 Advanced Studies Diploma in Housing from the 40’s-60’s in Barcelona. and Associate Professor of Architectural Design at Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 2003.

Her practice attends various scales, from public architecture, interior design to ephemeral interventions.

She has been Associate Professor at several Universities such as ETSAB, UPC, ETH Zurich, BAU, Kore ENNA and has directed several Workshops and International Sudios.

With her firm Estudi d’Arquitectura MIM-A she has recently finished the Caracol Building together with estudioHerreros, which has been awarded with the FAD Prize and was Finalist for the EU Mies van der Rohe award.

Her running projects are Begur Facilties Center and Square, Ernest Lluch Primary School in Hospitalet de Llobregat together with SUMO Architectes, Social Housing in Sant Feliu de Llobregat and an ephemeral light installation for LlumBarcelona Festival which was chosen to move to Paris for Nuit Blanche Festival.

Regarding practice, she understands each project as a unique opportunity to extract the best from the given circumstances to establish systems of relationships that articulate generously with the environment and that are able to attend to particularities from rigorous constructive strategies. She understands practice in an open way and collaborates with other professional offices as well as with members of other disciplines in order to meet new challenges while expanding knowledge. In the same sense, she also participates in teaching and architectural research in different universities and workshops.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Co-Founder Estudi Arquitectura MIM-A, Spain, 2007 – Present

• Co-Founder Taller d’Arquitectura, Spain, 2000 – 2007

• Collaborator Gustau Gili Galfetti Architecture, Spain 2004 – 2007

• Collaborator Julia Schulz-Dornburg Architecture, Spain 2004 – 2007

• Collaborator Conxita Balcells Architecture, Spain  2000 – 2004

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Design, IE University, Spain, 2022 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of Design, UPC. ETSAV, Spain, 2010 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of Design, BAU, Spain, 2018 – 2021

• Adjunct Professor of Design, UPC. ETSAV, Spain, 2003 – 2010

• Adjunct Professor of Design, Sam Fox School Saint Louis, USA 2009 – 2019

• Adjunct Professor of Design, Università Kore Enna, Italy, 2017

• Adjunct Professor of Design, ETH. Zurich, Switzerland, 2005 – 2006

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Architecture, UPC 2004 – Present

• DEA in Architecture, UPC 2007

• Research Grant, Generalitat de Catalunya+ European Economic Fund, 2004 – 2007

• Architecture Degree, ETSAB. UPC, Spain, 2000

• Erasmus Grant, TU Delft, Holland, 1998 – 1999