Marta Peris

Marta Peris, born in Palma in 1972, PhD in Architecture and lecturer at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Co-founder of the studio Peris+Toral Arquitectes, she combines her professional practice with teaching and research, focused on the concept of inhabiting. In 2016 she presented her doctoral thesis La casa japonesa a través del cine de Yasujiro Ozu (The Japanese House Through the Cinema of Yasujiro Ozu), a major study of domestic space, housing and Japanese culture through film, which led to the publication of the book La casa de Ozu (Ozu’s House) (Shangrila, 2019). 

Her work, both built and written, has been widely published in specialist journals and presented at international conferences and exhibitions, including the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris (2022), the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2025 and 2016), the exhibition Spain–Korea in Seoul (2021) and the UIA in Tokyo (2011). She has been a guest lecturer at institutions such as IED, La Salle, the School of Architecture of Curitiba and, since 2024, at EPFL in Lausanne. She also curated the exhibition Architecture catalane 2004–2009. Portrait d’époque at the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris (2009). 

Her career has been recognised with awards including the RIBA International Award 2024 and the Spanish Architecture Prize of the CSCAE 2022, and she was a finalist for the European Mies van der Rohe Award 2022.