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Mar Loren-Méndez (Málaga, 1968) B.Arch, M.Arch and PhD in Architecture from the University of Seville (1994, 2004). Master in Heritage and New Technologies (1996), with a scholarship from the European Leonardo Da Vinci program, and Master in Design Studies, Harvard University (1998), with a scholarship from the Real Colegio Complutense, a world center of excellence, where she has developed pre-doctoral stays, marking the international profile of her career.

Professor at the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition, School of Architecture, University of Seville since 2019, she has been teaching there since 1999. She is a member of Seville University Research Committee since 2016, of the School of Architecture Board since 2018, of the University Senate since 2013. She has developed her international research and teaching work in centers such as Boston Architectural Center (USA) where she started teaching architecture, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Universidad de la República de Montevideo (Uruguay), Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rice University, La Villette (France), UC Berkeley (USA) or the Getty Research Institute, among others. He has carried out research stays at the last three. She directed a module in the European Master Architecture Studium Generale, coordinated by BTU Cottbus (Germany). Since 2020 she coordinates and manages the European Erasmus+ Project for research and innovation in higher education HERSUS (Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education), within strategic networks of higher education in Europe, on the innovation of good practices. He has won awards for innovation, teaching excellence and his teaching and research career.

Member since 2000 of the CAPC Research Group (Contemporary City, Architecture and Heritage), she is its responsible researcher since 2015. Her research focuses on processes of heritage characterization and protection, with emphasis on non-exceptional heritage, developing three lines of research: cross-cultural studies Europe-US, contemporary architecture and coastal transformation and tourism, with emerging lines in interdisciplinary and creative methodologies, as well as their conceptual integration with new technologies. In 2019 she is the Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair Built Urban heritage in the digital era CREhAR (Creative Research and Education in heritage Assessment and Regeneration). 

She has extensive experience as a director of research projects and contracts: her projects on Contemporary Heritage have been subsidized with more than 1.5 million euros, of which she has directed and managed more than 350,000 euros in research grants from institutions such as the EU ERDF Funds, the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage and the Ministry of Research, Development and Innovation. He has directed contracts and projects such as the Registro Andaluz de Arquitectura Contemporánea RAAC (Málaga team management); Costa del Sol. Territorio, Ciudad y Arquitectura (IP) -both recognized with the 2009 Malaga Award, Fomento de la Arquitectura. The N-340 road corridor as a historical axis of the Andalusian coastlinewithin the framework of the AOP R&D+i Contracts, European ERDF Funds, in the framework of which he has received two awards at the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism BEAU 2018. The exhibition and publication project Bernard Rudofsky. Critical Disobedience of Modernity, culminates in the protection of the Rudofsky House as the youngest monument in Andalusia. For this research she won a grant from the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) and an Award from the College of Architects of Malaga in 2016.

She is the author of more than 50 articles, 20 books and book chapters and 30 reports on contemporary heritage for the Junta de Andalucía and UNESCO. She has curated several exhibitions and has been director and committee member of multiple congresses. She has received awards for innovation and excellence in teaching, as well as for the quality of her research. She has published nationally and internationally in Sustainability, VLC, PAA, TDSR (Berkeley), Arquitectura COAM, AS Arquitecturas del Sur (Chile), Apuntes (Colombia), Geographical Review (USA), IJGI (Switzerland), Revista de Historia Industrial, Revista EGA, Informes de la Construcción, DoCoMOMO Internacional, present in Avery, Riba, A&H Index or JCR. Her involvement as an evaluator, member of scientific and editorial committees of impact publications, complete her commitment to quality transfer in her area, which has culminated with the founding and current direction of the TEMPORÁNEA Journal, Journal of Architectural History.

Carlos Plaza (Sevilla 1983) es investigador en el Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónicas de la Unversidad de Sevilla. Se formó en historia y arquitectura en las Universidad de Sevilla y Florencia (2007), en las cuales obtuvo posteriormente el doctorado en cotutela en Arquitectura/Storia dell'Architettura e l'Urbanistica (2013) desarrollando sus estudios sobre Arquitectura del Renacimiento con Amedeo Belluzzi en Florencia y con Howard Burns en la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Ha sido Fellow en Villa I Tatti-Harvard University (2015) y en el Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (2016). Sus intereses de investigación se centran en la historia de la arquitectura y la historiografía. 

Miembro del Grupo de Investigación HUM-666: Ciudad, Arquitectura y Patrimonio Contemporáneos. Asistente Honorario, Docente Colaborador Externo y Profesor Sustituto Interino del Dpto. de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónicas de la Universidad de Sevilla.