María currently practices, teaches and studies architecture in London, Vienna and the Canary Islands. She is Programme Director of Professional Studies at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), a Postdoctoral researcher at the TU Wien and a course tutor in Critical Practice and History and Theory and Professional Practice at the AA where she also codirects the Canary Islands Visiting School, a research programme focused on regional and ecological built practices. She also teaches Critical Practice at the London School of Architecture. In her work, she thinks with two conceptual figures: the frontier and the archipelago. The former to interrogate architecture’s true to form instrumentality to power, the latter to imagine architecture otherwise – despite itself and possibly even breaking its cast.