Marta Miret Rodríguez

Marta Miret Rodríguez (Zaragoza, 1981) Architect and researcher.

Daughter of Carlos Miret Bernal, architect, and María Milagros Rodríguez Valdonedo, psychoanalyst.

I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Architecture from the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), with a specialisation entitled Critical Approach to Architecture from the Cultural and Historical Environment. In the project “Albinyana, a Catalan Village”, I first studied the formal and socio-historical evolution of the settlement and, subsequently, proposed restoring the entire village by means of small interventions to regenerate the spaces, uses and historical interest, creating new focuses of activity and using the new de-centralisation offered by the digital era. Classified as Project of Interest in the National Archive of Catalonia (ANC).

I am registered with the Official Professional Association of Architects of Aragón (COAA) and the Basque-Navarre Official Professional Association of Architects (COAVN).

Multilingual. I started working at my father’s architecture firm when I was halfway through my studies, although my first site visit took place when I was 6 years old.

I contributed to the book Así nació: Expo Zaragoza 2008 [How It Was Born: Expo Zaragoza 2008], and was also in charge of the design and layout.

I have spent long periods of time in England (London), Germany (Berlin), and Italy (Milan), for study or work reasons.

During all these years I have successfully completed over fifty projects. At the end of the book, I include an annex with the most relevant ones.

One of my projects was highlighted by the Polytechnic University of Milan as a work of interest in the city of Bilbao.

My job as Retail Project Manager with HMY, which I combine with my work at Miret Arquitectos, is turning out to be a very interesting experience, as it has allowed me to lead a great team of professionals and work all over Europe.

For professional and cultural reasons, I have travelled to the biggest cities in the world, in America, Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa: Buenos Aires, Bogotá, New York, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Cairo, Istanbul, and almost all the European capitals. This has enriched my gaze as an architect and given me a broad perspective on the evolution of architecture.

This is one of my mottos: The more information you have, the more resources to create good architecture or, at least, a more human architecture in line with the times.

My passion for architecture, culture, the arts and humanities, literature, film, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology, fields which have enhanced my profession, has guided me through this pandemic.

On September 25, 2020, she presents the book ” Pandemic and Lockdown Through the Eyes of an Architect”, an essay written during the lockdown and with a deep feeling. “I want to capture that humanistic part of architecture. This pandemic should make us think.”