Zaida Muxí

Zaida Muxí, born in Buenos Aires in 1964, holds a PhD in architecture and is a professor of Urban Planning at the ETSAB-UPC, where she co-directs the Laboratory of 21st Century Housing master’s degree programme and is part of the QURBIS - Quality of Urban Life: Innovation , Sustainability and Social Commitment research group. As a teacher and researcher, she focuses on gender studies applied to urban planning, housing and neighbourhoods, and the effect of globalisation on cities. 

She is also the joint coordinator of the Architecture, Cities and Gender postgraduate degree programme at the Monterrey Institute of Technology. In the field of public management, she has worked to include equality, sustainability and social justice criteria in urban planning. Between 2015 and 2019, she was the director of Urban Planning in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, where she headed projects on housing, public space and urban ecology. In 2023 she was appointed to the Special Federico E. Mariscal Chair at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and in 2024 she was chosen to represent Women’s and Feminist Movements on the Board of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The same year, she took part in the World Urban Forum (WUF) organised by UN-Habitat in Cairo. She is the author of several books, including Política y arquitectura (with Josep Maria Montaner, Gustavo Gili, 2020) and Mujeres, casas y ciudades (DPR-Barcelona, 2020). She regularly contributes to trade journals and La Vanguardia newspaper with pieces on spaces, society, gender and power.

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