Maria S. Giudici + Moisés Puente

Dr. Maria Sheherazade Giudici completed a PhD at Delft University in 2014; her thesis ‘The Street as a Project: The Space of the City and the Construction of the Modern Subject’ is a critique of the contemporary idea of public space and an attempt to rethink the ‘void between the buildings’ as the object of political and architectural intentions. In 2011 Maria joined Pier Vittorio Aureli as Studio Master of Diploma Unit 14 at the Architectural Association. Maria is also the founder of publishing and educational platform Black Square and editor of AA Files since 2019.

Moisés Puente is a Spanish architect, editor and curator. He worked as editor at the Gustavo Gili publishing house between 1998 and 2020, in particular as editor of the 2G magazine, which he now directs for the German publisher Walther König. In 2016 he founded the independent publishing house Puente editores, specialized in contemporary art and architecture essays. In 2010 he received the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism. In his most recent book “Cháchara and other stories of architecture” (2020, Caniche) he opens up ways of discussion based on the analysis of consecrated architects and contextualizing new values of contemporary architecture, along with launching an acute critique on the devoid discourse criticism prevailing in the current scene.