Maria Rubert de Ventós

Maria Rubert de Ventós (born 1956) is a Spanish architect, winner of the 2004 National Urban Planning Award. Among other works, she was co-designer of the expansion of the Palacio de las Cortes in 1994 and was project director for the Olympic Village on Barcelona's Avinguda Diagonal. In 2011 she became the first female university professor of Urban Planning in Spain.

Maria Rubert de Ventós
Born1956 (age 63–64)
Barcelona, Spain
Alma materEscuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona
OccupationArchitect
Notable work
Palacio de las Cortes
RelativesXavier Rubert de Ventós (brother)
AwardsNational Urban Planning Award of Spain
Websitemariarubertarquitecta.blogspot.com.es

Education

Maria Rubert de Ventós received the title of architect in 1981 at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), where she earned her doctorate in 1991.

Urban planning career
Expansion of the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid

Rubert has focused on heritage, public and green spaces, mobility, and transport, especially in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, and Cartagena, where she has designed management and layout plans. Her projects include the 1994 expansion of the Palacio de las Cortes of Madrid (meeting place of the Congress of Deputies), together with Josep Parcerisa and Joan Clos, after winning a competition where 287 proposals were presented.[1]

She was also the project director for the Olympic Village on Barcelona's Avinguda Diagonal,[2] the layout of the Besòs-Mar area, the 22@ Perú-Pere IV plan,[3] the expansion project of Cartagena, and the urban center of Pineda de Mar.

She received the 2004 National Urbanism Award of Spain in the Journalistic Initiative category from the Ministry of Housing for her contributions to public knowledge and debate on subjects pertaining to the city of Barcelona.[4]

Academic career

Maria Rubert de Ventós was appointed full professor of the ETSAB Department of Urban and Territorial Planning in 2011, becoming the country's first woman to reach that rank in the subject.[5][6]

She has been a professor of urban planning at ETSAB since 1983. She performs research and teaches in the doctoral program in urban planning and in the master's degree in landscaping at the Department of Urban Planning of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).[7]

She has also taught at universities in the United States, Chile, Germany, and Italy.[8]

She has been a juror for several awards, including "Racons Públics" in Alicante in 2012.[9] In 2017 she was a juror of the 1st Manuel de Solà-Morales European Award for urban planning granted by the UPC's Barcelona Urban Planning Laboratory.[10]

Publications
  • Materials d'urbanisme (1999), Edicions ETSAB, ISBN 9788476537183, with Josep Parcerisa
  • La ciudad no es una hoja en Blanco: hechos del urbanismo (2000), Ediciones ARQ, ISBN 9788469702284, with Josep Parcerisa
  • Metro, Galaxias metropolitanas (2001), Edicions UPC, ISBN 9788483016558, with Josep Parcerisa
  • Places Porxades a Catalunya (2006), Edicions UPC, ISBN 9788483018521
  • Empire Corner (2008), Edicions ETSAB, ISBN 9788460808459
  • Pere IV: scan Poblenou Barcelona: urbanística 2 2016, la ciutat per parts (2016), Barcelona Grup de Recerca Laboratori d'Urbanisme, ISBN 9788461756094, with Eulàlia Gómez
  • Cities 2: Mediterranean (2018), Barcelona Grup de Recerca Laboratori d'Urbanisme, ISBN 9788409075898, with Eulàlia Gómez
  • Meridiana: scan Barcelona: Urbanística 2 2017, la ciutat per parts (2018), Barcelona Grup de Recerca Laboratori d'Urbanisme, ISBN 9788409076888, with Eulàlia Gómez
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References
  1. "Bienes inmuebles del Congreso de los Diputados" [Real Estate of the Congress of Deputies] (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  2. "Ocho equipos de arquitectos redactarán dos anteproyectos parciales de la Villa Olímpica" [Eight Teams of Architects Will Draft Two Preliminary Blueprints of the Olympic Village]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 22 May 1988. p. 40. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  3. Siegenthaler, Yann (October 2004). Le nouveau Levant de Barcelona (in Catalan). p. 15. Retrieved 4 June 2019 – via issuu.
  4. "Resolución de 31 de marzo de 2006, de la Presidencia del Jurado del Premio Nacional de Urbanismo, por la que se hace pública la concesión de dicho Premio correspondiente a la convocatoria del año 2004" [Resolution of 31 March 2006, of the Presidency of the Jury of the National Urban Planning Award, By Which the Concession of Said Award Corresponding to the Convocation of the Year 2004 is Made Public]. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (92): 14840. 18 April 2006. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  5. Cruz, Helena; Boya Busquet, Mireia (11 June 2015). "El urbanismo no tiene nombre de mujer" [Urban Planning Does Not Have a Woman's Name]. eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  6. "Resolución de 15 de julio de 2011, de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, por la que se nombra Catedrática de Universidad a doña Maria Rubert de Ventos" [Resolution of 15 July 2011, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, By Which Mrs. Maria Rubert de Ventos is Appointed Full Professor]. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (214): 96221. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  7. "Maria Rubert de Ventos" (in Catalan). Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  8. "Maria Rubert de Ventós". Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  9. Gras, Eric (4 October 2012). "'Racons Públics' otorga ocho premios en su primera propuesta en Castellón" ['Racons Públics' Awards Eight Prizes in its First Proposal in Castellón]. El Periódico Mediterráneo (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  10. "Profesor arquitectura Marne-la-Vallée gana premio urbanismo Solà-Morales UPC" [Architecture Professor Marne-la-Vallée Wins Solà-Morales UPC Urban Planning Award]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
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