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Nerea Calvillo (Madrid, March 7, 1973) is a Spanish architect who investigates the intersection between architecture, science and technology, as well as feminist studies, new materials and urban political ecology. Specialized in the research of the visual representation of air in the atmosphere, she constructs graphic diagrams for the visualization of invisible microscopic agents in the air and thus influences the improvement of air quality. This project is called "In the Air".

Education and professional development
She studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Madrid, where she received her PHD in 2014 with outstanding cum laude with the thesis "Sensing Aeropolis". She obtained the Poiesis Fellowship from the University of New York. With the Fulbright scholarship, she studied in New York, graduating from MsArchAAD at Columbia University in New York.

She expanded her studies at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. She also studied in the United Kingdom at the Goldsmiths University of London, and at the University of Warwick.

She created the C+arquitectos studio in 2004, after working in several international architectural firms such as NO.MAD Madrid, and F.O.A., London.

Making extensive use of new technologies as usual work tools, C+arquitectos has been responsible for the design of numerous spaces for the exhibition of contemporary art such is the case of the Laboral Center of Art in Gijón, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, the Tabacalera Principal of the Ministry of Culture in Madrid or various headquarters of the Cervantes Institute (Spain, Serbia, etc). Likewise, her architecture projects have earned her the recognition of awards such as the EUROPAN,  or having been part of the selection of emerging practices of FreshMadrid in 2007.

In 2012 she presented the international academic project TEDxMadrid with the presentation "El aire de Madrid". In 2012 she participated in the round table Intra-City and Sustainability at the Roca Gallery, in London, together with the architects Ariadna Cantís and Izaskun Chinchilla, organized by SpainNow! and curated by Carmen Molina and Inés García Clariana. In 2013 C+arquitectos was selected for FRESHLATINO 2, a selection of Ibero-American architecture offices curated by the architects Ariadna Cantís and Andrés Jaque, presenting the exhibition of the works at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid. Since 2013 she works as a researcher in the research project funded by ERC Citizen Sense in the sociology department of Goldsmiths University of London, whose main researcher is Jennifer Gabrys, along with the artist Helen Pritchard and the anthropologist Nick Shapiro.

She teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.6 Since 2014 she teaches as an assistant professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Methodologies Social Sciences University of Warwick United Kingdom and at the architectural school AA London.

She has worked in urbanNext: expanding architecture to rethink cities and practiced teaching at the University of Alicante from 2010 to 2014 and at the Universidad Europea de Madrid.

She has been director of the line of work dedicated to urban screens Media (nera) Lab in Medialab-Prado in Madrid and curator of Media Facades Festival Europe in 2010, the European project Facades Connecting Cities is a network of European institutions that proposes the use of digital facades and large screens for the circulation and exchange of cultural and artistic contents in the cities.

The year 2012 in Madrid, she was an expert speakers presenting a conference in the annual international plataform of knowledge TED xMadrid

She participated in the VIII Biennial of Spanish Architecture in the project Dissidents Cartographies in 2005. Co-curator of Connecting Cities Network by the Culture Program 2007-2013 of the European Union.

She has been invited to participate at the I Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Seoul Korea 2017 with the project "Yellow Dust" produced with the help of Acción Cultural Española and an ESRC ESA scholarship from the University of Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom).

In the T Magazine Spain of the New York Times, Nerea Calvillo is one of the "Influential 17. Who is in charge here, those who have marked the interior design, architecture and lifestyle of 2017. Stay with them."