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= Anna Puigjaner Barberá = Anna Puigjaner Barberá (1980 ) is an architect and co-founder of the architecture office MAIO based in Barcelona and New York. They work on flexible spatial systems that permit theoretical positions materialize.

She is currently combining her architectural practice with academic and research work. Puigjaner is Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia GSAPP and Coordinator of the Core I Architecture Studios and guest professor at Energy & Sustainability MCH (ETH). Her ongoing research on Kitchenless City has been awarded with the 2016 Wheelwright Prize given by Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

In Kitchenless City, Anna Puigjaner rethinks about the changes that lie ahead for the future of housing, researching how it should suit the needs of its inhabitants. One aspect that she defends is the house without kitchen, due to the political and social dependency people always had to that space in the homes. Her idea comes along with the concept of flexibility and disordered distribution of spaces, therefore, no dependencies in any space. "'The kitchen is the most provocative part of the house. It has been used as a political tool for a long time, to the point that nowadays we can’t accept living without a kitchen.'"