María
Villanueva Fernández

Architect in 2008 from the University of Navarra (ETSAUN), with the Luis Moya Blanco End of Degree Award and a First Class Honours qualification for the Final Degree Project. She obtained her PhD in 2012 with the Doctoral Thesis: Modern Furnishings. Furniture by Spanish Architects 1925-1936 (Apto Cum Laude). Full Professor (ANECA) in 2021. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Architectural Association, London (2009) and a Visiting Scholar at the GSAPP Columbia University, New York (2011) and has carried out research stays at The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2011) and at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux - ensapBx (2017). She has focused her research in the field of creative processes and the history of design, especially in the work carried out by Spanish architects between 1925 and 1975, addressing the relationships between architecture, furniture design and art. The results have led to several articles in indexed publications, prestigious conference books, participation in collective publications, presentations at national and international conferences and other non-indexed publications. She has participated in research projects, which have led to different results such as the translation into Spanish of Le Corbusier's book El Arte Decorativo de Hoy, of which she has been the edition coordinator. She is the author of the book (Una) Caracterización del muebles moderna (EUNSA). In addition, she has co-directed two doctoral theses of the Doctorate Program in Applied Creativity, has directed 20 Final Degree Projects and has participated as a reviewer for the journal Res Mobilis, Estoa, Ppa and CG. Since 2008, she has been linked to the ETSAUN Projects Department (of which she has been Deputy Director and Secretary) in the subjects Analysis of Forms (2008-2012 and 2016), Creative Traditions in History (2018-) and as head of Architectural Drawing (2012-2016), Graphic Expression Workshop (2017-), Design Workshop (2018-) and Furniture Design (2019-). She has also carried out teaching work in other centers: Degree in Industrial Design Engineering at the Tecnun School of Engineers (2012-2014) and Faculty of Communication at the University of Navarra (2015-). She has been a postgraduate teacher in the Master in Architectural Design at ETSAUN (2010) and in the Master of ISEM Fashion Business School (2013-2016). She has coordinated and taught national courses -Creativity Seminar, Drawing (2013), Fashion Drawing (2014)- and international courses -Product Design and Development (2014), Meccano Prototypes (2014), Architectural Visions (2014-2015), Drawing Architecture for Spain (2017)- and has been a guest professor at the critique session of the International Workshop Landscape and Urbanism organized by the Architectural Association. She has been Coordinator of the 1st year of the Degree in Architecture, Coordinator of the Global Architecture Program and its activities, of the Graphic Lab subjects of the Degree in Architecture at Etsaun and coordinator of the product and fashion mentions of the Degree in Design at the University of Navarra. This work has been complemented with other initiatives, such as carrying out teaching innovation projects and preparing teaching material.