Topaketak

Mireia Luzarraga is an architect (ETSAM) and a studio critic at the Columbia GSAPP. Luzarraga founded TAKK in 2010, an architecture and design studio based in Barcelona. Her projects investigate how architecture can catalyze the development of more democratic lives, incorporating feminist thinking, ecology and politics into its practice. Her work has been awarded the COAM, the Temps de les Arts and the FAD. She works both in the public and private spheres. TAKK clients include FRAC-Centre Val de Loire and IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Barcelona City Council, FAD (Foment de les Arts i el Disseny), Vitra, Swatch, Hermès, FITUR (Tourism Fair), or CA2M (Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo). TAKK's work belongs to the FRAC-Centre de Loire collection and has been exhibited in the Triennium of Oslo and the Biennials of Venice, San Sebastian, Tallinn, Maia and Rabat, among others. Besides, TAKK has participated in exhibitions at the Matadero-Madrid, Center d'Arts Santa Monica, CCCB (Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona), MAK Vienna, TCDC Bangkok and Alcova Milano. Luzarraga is currently a professor at the Catalan Institute of Advanced Architecture (IAAC) and La Salle, and with Alejandro Muiño at the Columbia GSAPP.