María Alexia León Angel was born in Lima in 1970. She obtained the Degree of Architect from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Ricardo Palma University in Lima in 1992. In 1996 she founded her own architecture workshop "Leondelima". In 2012, her architecture studio merged with Lucho Marcial's studio, creating Leonmarcial Arquitectos.
León has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2007) where she taught an architecture workshop for advanced programs: GSD1318 Urban Desert Studio. Her most recent literary work is called "Desert-Density" which contains 15 years of research in the field of architecture and urban fabrics in the desert.
Her first project, Casa Mori in Playa Bonita, was chosen as a finalist in the I Biennial of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Madrid. In 2000, she was a finalist in the II Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture. She was selected by the MAK, Center for Art and Architecture, for the UFI Program with the proposal LA-LIMA, Probing the Urban Desert or Testing the Desert, being nominated in the same year to receive the Marcus Prize in architecture.
León has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2007) where she taught an architecture workshop for advanced programs: GSD1318 Urban Desert Studio. Her most recent literary work is called "Desert-Density" which contains 15 years of research in the field of architecture and urban fabrics in the desert.
Her first project, Casa Mori in Playa Bonita, was chosen as a finalist in the I Biennial of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Madrid. In 2000, she was a finalist in the II Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture. She was selected by the MAK, Center for Art and Architecture, for the UFI Program with the proposal LA-LIMA, Probing the Urban Desert or Testing the Desert, being nominated in the same year to receive the Marcus Prize in architecture.
