Mireia Luzárraga

Mireia Luzárraga is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Core I sequence at Columbia University GSAPP. She has previously been Dean’s Visiting Professor at GSAPP (2023), Kengo Kuma Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (2024), and Master Tutor at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona (2018-2022).

She is founder and principal of TAKK Architecture, a research-driven design office based in Barcelona and New York. Her work focuses on investigating how design can catalyze egalitarian societies through the incorporation of feminism, queer ecologies, and posthuman studies into spatial practices.

Her work has received the Design Vanguard award 2024, the Best Archilover Project award in 2023, the FAD Awards 2023, the COAM award 2022, and the Temps de les Arts award 2022. She has also been a finalist for the Archdaily’s Best Building of the Year awards in 2024, a finalist at the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, a finalist in the ROOM 2023 awards and a finalist in the FAD awards in 2023 and 2019.

Mireia Luzárraga’s work is featured in some of the most prestigious architecture museum collections worldwide, including the FRAC Center Val-de-Loire, the Vitra Design Museum, the Mak Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, and the Disseny Hub in Barcelona, and spans both the public and private spheres. Among her notable public clients are the Musée Cantonal de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains in Lausanne, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM, and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona. In the private sphere, she has undertaken projects for Hermès, Moncler, Vitra, and Swatch.

Luzárraga and her work frequently appear in specialized forums both nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale 2023 (Slovenia pavilion), 2021 (Spain pavilion), 2014 (Spain pavilion), the San Sebastián Biennale 2023 and 2017, Design Miami 2023, Salone del Mobile in Milan 2023, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022, the Roma Architecture Festival 2022, the Orléans Biennale 2022, the Maia Biennale in Porto 2019, the Rabat Biennale 2019, and the Oslo Triennale 2016.

Luzárraga has also lectured at various institutions, including the Kyoto University in 2024, the Royal Academy of Arts in 2024, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Boston in 2023, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in 2023, the University of Applied Arts die Angewandte in Vienna in 2023, the University of Pennsylvania in 2023, and the ETH in Zurich in 2022.

Her work is widely published both nationally and internationally, with notable appearances in Arquitectura Viva, Frame, Domus, l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Plot, and AMC. In mainstream press, she has been featured in articles in El País, El Mundo, El Periódico de Catalunya, and Diari Ara.