Habitar(se) - Laura Barros

The body and architecture are entities in continuity and therefore develop together. With the increasing technological progress that is currently taking place, the construction of our environment, of our species and, in particular, of our bodies is changing drastically: the new culture of the body manifests itself in the form of body-building, aesthetic medicine, plastic surgery, prostheses, genetic manipulations... These are symptoms that bodies are inevitably transformed and constituted to a large extent by technology, and as a consequence, the need arises to study the relationship from an architectural point of view, since these modifications have direct implications for society and politics, for the ways in which the city is developed and understood, for our relationship with spaces, with ourselves and with other species... In short, for the constitution of the human. The body is the subject of inhabiting. Architecture, as a tool capable of linking body and space, can dilute the frontier that separates them, and should therefore form part of this reflection by understanding the implications of the contemporary body, a hybrid body, which is defined and modified by technology, a trans body. 

Laura Barros Condés

(Madrid, 1996) Graduate in Architecture from the European University of Madrid and Master in Interior Design from the Higher School of Design of Barcelona. She won the Arquia Scholarship in 2019 and was nominated for the YTAA (Young Talent Architecture Awards) in 2020 for her final degree project "Habitar(se)", which has given rise to this book and has been the germ of a deep interest in the field of research. In addition, during her career she has been able to work in various architectural firms such as RCR Arquitectes or elii (architecture office). She currently works as an architect and interior designer at OHLAB Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab.