Marisa Garcia is an architect and holds a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is currently Serra Hunter Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Girona, and the principal investigator of the Architecture and Territory Research Group. Her research focuses on the complex relationships between heritage, politics and modern culture.
As a researcher on the funded inter-university project Retranslates (Reflections, from Europe, on architecture in Spain: urban projects, public facilities, design and interventions in heritage), a significant aspect of her research involves the role of transnational networks in facilitating intercultural exchange. She focuses on the encounter between different architectural and urban contexts and cultures as a methodological and conceptual tool for a global history of modern architecture. Her work has been widely published in numerous journals, including Journal of Tourism History, The Journal of Architecture, Social History, ACE Architecture City and Environment, HPA Histories of Postwar Architecture, i2; Casabella, Town Planning Review, and in several book chapters, including Crossing frontiers: International Networks of Spanish Architecture (2021); Hyperspaces (2020); City and Sea. The patrimonialisation of port cities (2016); Tradizione e modernità. L'influsso dell'architettura ordinaria nel moderno (2015).
Her
contributions to society include collaborations with leading cultural
institutions, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía—where she
authored the Guide to the Collection’ and advised on the reorganisation of the
permanent galleries—and contributions to catalogues including Pity and Terror. Picasso’s Path toGuernica (MNCARS, 2017) and Habitación (CA2M, 2018). She has also collaborated
with CCCB, Fundació Tàpies, Fundació Caixa Girona, Fundación Cerezales Antonino
y Cinia (Materia en bruto, 2022), Bombas Gens Art Centre (Hyperspaces, 2021),
and the galleries Marc Domènech and Guillermo de Osma (Le Corbusier: Art &Design, 2018). Additional outreach includes curating architectural exhibitions
such as Coderch: In Search of Home. She also directs the academic journal Papers
DC, serves on editorial boards, edits special issues and monographs, and
reviews for international academic journals