María Villanueva Fernández
Associate Professor at the Department of Theory, Projects, and Urban Planning at the University of Navarra, where she earned her Ph.D. with the thesis "Equipping in Modern Style: Furniture by Spanish Architects 1925-1936" (2012). She has disseminated her research, focused on modern design by architects and the boundaries of this discipline with art, design and architecture, in indexed journals such as Interiors, Res Mobilis, EGA, VLC, and Ppa, and has participated in editorial projects such as (Una) Characterization of Modern Furniture, of which she is the author (2020) and the Spanish edition of Le Corbusier's The Decorative Art of Today (2013). Among her recent publications are "The Seminal Influence of the Bauhaus. Furniture and Interiors in Spanish Magazines in the Interwar Period" (2023), "The Architectural Project as an Impulse for Standard Furniture" (2022), and "Equipping the Modern Home: Spain, 1927-1936" (2019). She has conducted research stays at The Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2011), at the GSAPP Columbia University (New York, 2011), and at Ensapbx (Bordeaux, 2017)