Mónica Rivera

Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos

Mónica Rivera is the principal of Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos, a Barcelona-based practice that understands architecture as a social and cultural endeavor deeply engaged with the environment. The firm’s, including Two Cork Houses, Social Housing for Young People, and Hotel Aire de Bardenas, has been widely recognized and featured in El Croquis, A+U, Detail, Architectural Review, the monograph Domestic Thresholds, and at the Venice, Ibero-American, and Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism, among others. Rivera is also the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and chair of graduate architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a BFA and a BArch from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MArch from Harvard University.