Ms Macarena de la Vega de Leon

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).

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