Past Futures: A Posthumous Dialogue with Ricardo Bofill

MARIA RIUS RUIZ is an architect, lecturer, and researcher at MIT. In 2013 she co-founded the award-winning studio NUA arquitectures. The studio's work explores the fields of architecture and design across scales, employing strategies that are sensitive to the history of sites and the environment. NUA's work has been widely published and exhibited, including the XV Venice Biennale of Architecture. Maria's research focuses on experimental collective housing designs from the 1960s. By analyzing them, she aims to understand how architectural design can foster more connected, equitable, and sustainable communities in cities.