School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Dr Macarena de la Vega de Leon

Honorary Fellow
School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Macarena is a Spanish architect and holds a PhD in Architectural History (University of Canberra). She is a Lecturer in Analysis of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Honorary Fellow/Lecturer at The University of Queensland. She was part of the Australian Research Council funded research project ‘Is Architecture Art? A history of categories, concepts and recent practices’ at the Centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism, History (ATCH) of The University of Queensland and a 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACACUCH) of the University of Melbourne.

She has taught at the University of Canberra (2014-2015), the University of Queensland (2018-2019), the University of Melbourne (2020), Kent State University in Ohio, the United States (2022) and IE University in Madrid (2024).  Her field of interest is the study of the writing of architectural history, its historiography, with a recent focus on the late 20th and early 21st centuries, on the global and on oral history.

She serves as ECR member of the Editorial Board of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), and as member of the Contingent Faculty Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

View her ORCiD profile for more information.
 

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (10)
Conference Paper (1)

Book Chapter

de la Vega de León, Macarena (2022). Theorizing a Modern Tradition. The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory. (pp. 113-124) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003292999-9

Journal Articles

de Leon, Macarena de la vega and Walker, Paul (2023). Dialogues on the Global within and beyond Australasia. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 82 (3), 250-251. doi: 10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.250
De la Vega de León, Macarena (2022). Delayed objectives: Rewriting modern architecture since 1900. Cuaderno de Notas, 2022 (23), 106-119. doi: 10.20868/cn.2022.4987
de la Vega de León, Macarena (2022). Writing in the margins: speaking of (hi)stories in Australia and New Zealand. Fabrications, 32 (2), 1293-311. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2134551
de León, Macarena de la Vega (2022). Book Review: Activism at Home. Architects Dwelling between Politics, Aesthetics and Resistance, edited by Isabelle Doucet and Janina Gosseye, BerlinJovis, 2021. 384 pp., 150 col. and b/w. illus., 42.00€ (soft cover), ISBN 978-3-86859-633-5. Fabrications, 32 (1), 164-166. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2047452
de la Vega de León, Macarena and Tippey, Brett (2021). Editors' Note. Fabrications, 31 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2021.1924455
de la Vega de León, Macarena (2020). Report: 2020 SAHANZ PhD Colloquium. Fabrications, 30 (3), 436-437. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1834987
De la Vega de León, Macarena (2019). Modern to contemporary: a historiography of global in architecture. Cuaderno de Notas, 2019 (20), 43-52. doi: 10.20868/cn.2019.4259
de Leon, Macarena de la Vega (2018). A Tale of Inconsistency: The Absence and Presence of Australia in the Historiography of Modern Architecture. Fabrications-The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, 28 (1), 47-66. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2017.1394806
de la Vega de León, Macarena (2016). Towards authenticity: Greece in modern architecture since 1900. Athens Journal of Architecture, 3 (1), 7-20. doi: 10.30958/aja.3-1-1
de la Vega de León, Macarena (2015). The historiography of modern architecture: twenty-five years later. Athens Journal of Architecture, 1 (2), 97-110. doi: 10.30958/aja.1-2-1

Conference Paper

De la Vega de León, Macarena (2023). En los márgenes. Las historias de mujeres que escriben historias de la arquitectura en Australia y Nueva Zelanda. València: Universitat Politècnica de València. doi: 10.4995/icag2023.2023.16764

Areas of research

ATCH Affiliates