Juana María SÁNCHEZ GÓMEZ

Architect, PhD in Urban Recycling. Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Málaga University. Málaga, Spain.

Architect, PhD (Granada, 2001 and 2015 with the doctoral thesis Enclaves and Urbanity: Updates in the Interchanges of Garden and Habitat). She has been teaching since 2010 in the area of Urban Planning and Land Management at the Higher Technical School of Architecture. She has been invited as a speaker at various schools and forums on a national level (Architecture Schools: Camilo José Cela, Alcalá de Henares, Alicante, Granada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as well as the Architects’ Associations of Granada, Madrid, and Alicante) and internationally: Forum Europan, Munich School of Architecture, Innsbruck School of Architecture, and the AA Summer Courses in London, among others. She has served as a researcher in the RNM 909 research group on Efficient Housing and Urban Recycling, with notable work on a research contract with the Port of Motril to improve the port-city relationship, as well as to adapt the urban spaces of the Port System and the Varadero neighborhood. She co-founded DJarquitectura in 2001, a studio whose work has been recognized with national and international awards, including: First Prize in Europan 7, 8, 10, and 11, Bawelt Awards 2011, finalist in the AR Awards in 2010, and nominations for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards in 2010, 2021, and 2022. First Prize in residential research competitions, notably the VIVA competition, Avant-garde Housing, for the recently approved Building Code implementation. Bawelt Awards 2011. Prize José Moreno Villa Prize for the Promotion of Architecture College of Architects of Malaga Awards 2024. Her work has been published in books and numerous prestigious journals, as well as featured in national and international exhibitions.