Daniela Beatriz Arias

Estructura arquitectónica minimalista con rampas y escaleras en espiral iluminadas por luz natural desde aberturas superiores.
Care-centered architecture and urbanism. Mobility and gender.

Description

Email: daniela.arias.laurino@tec.mx

 

Research group
Sustainable Territorial Development

An architect from Universidad de la República (Uruguay), she holds a PhD in Architectural Theory and History from the ETSAB-UPC, where she also earned master's degrees in Theory and History and the 21st-Century Sustainable Collective Housing Laboratory. She is a research professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro Campus, and a member of the Theory and Criticism Research Group and the Transdisciplinary Care Cluster. Her work focuses on the theoretical and methodological dimensions of the intersectional gender perspective applied to architecture and the city, women's history, and feminist and ecofeminist theories. She has researched and worked extensively on collective housing, care, social management of habitat, and cooperative models. She has taught at universities in Latin America and Europe, including UPC, PUCE, UBA, UNED, UdelaR, and Escola Sert. At FADU-UdelaR, she led the Project Workshop and was a researcher in the Permanent Housing Unit. She was also a professor in the Master's in Housing program at UPC and co-organized international conferences on this subject. Since 2015, she has been a writer and editor for the website Un día | Una arquitecta, and collaborates on the Miradas Situadas – NAM project at Universidad de Alicante. She has worked as an external consultant on urban plans with a gender focus for public administrations in Uruguay and Spain. 
 

Daniela Beatriz Arias Laurino

  • Mediterráneas. UA. Ongoing project.
  • Entretejidas. Gender Initiative Project, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Ongoing project.
  • EAAD Cluster. Transdisciplinarity of care. Incorporation of the gender perspective in the programmatic design of social housing projects. Habitat for Humanity. Ongoing project.
  • CBRFP-Wood and Forest. Characterization of Wood Material from Sustainable Forest and Technological Innovation to Improve Circularity and Local Community Economies. EAAD, PHASE 2 presented on April 2, 2025.
  • Miradas Cruzadas. UA.

  • UNESCO Chair in Care-Centered Architecture and Urbanism (as co-founder).

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela. Crítica de investigación. 2024 “Aquella eterna fuente está escondida” en VAD. Veredes, Arquitectura Y divulgación, 2024. n.º 12 (diciembre):134-36.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela; Zaida Muxí Martínez. "Mujeres y paisaje. Recorridos por una práctica holística y el caso de Cataluña." Feminismo/s 44 (2024): 77-100.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela, y Alessandra Cireddu. “Experiencias de transformación socio-espacial desde los valores de la sostenibilidad y el cuidado. El caso del Distrito Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera en Barcelona. España” en Urbe, 2023.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela, y Zaida Muxí Martínez. “Planificación del espacio público: la movilidad del cuidado en las centralidades urbanas” en Bitácora Arquitectura, 2023.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela. Muxí, Zaida; Eizaguirre, Sandra. “El tiempo de la vida cotidiana y su relación con la infraestructura. Caso Barcelona” en Revista de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 2023.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela; Muxí, Zaida. 2023. "La ciudad de los quince minutos: la movilidad del cuidado en la planificación urbana." En Urbanismo feminista y nuevas geografías del cuidado en Latinoamérica.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela. 2023. “Cuerpos en tensión. Una lectura del urbanismo actual desde la corporalidad” en Arquitectura y Urbanismo del cuidado, 2023.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela; Muxí, Zaida. “La movilidad del cuidado en Barcelona y Montevideo. Dos miradas, una crítica” en Actas de las Jornadas Académicas Digitales de la UPC, 2022.

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela; Muxí, Zaida. 2022. “Social and territorial connectivity. Towards a Paradigm Shift in Mobility and Accessibility for Gender Equality” en GOLD VI Report on Pathways to urban and territorial equality .

  • Arias Laurino, Daniela; Taller Ecosocial Hábitat4 SCA. Bloque C. “Urbanismo, visibilización, cuidados” en I Plan de Igualdad entre Mujeres y Hombres de La Zubia 2022-2026.