Mónica Rivera, Emiliano López. Mónica Rivera y Emiliano López Arquitectos

Mónica Rivera y Emiliano López Arquitectos is an architectural firm, based in Barcelona, ​​founded by Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera. Rivera y López's work spans multiple scales and has received numerous international awards. Their practice focuses on carefully crafted works that understand architecture as a cultural endeavor that is deeply engaged with the environment.

Mónica Rivera was born in Puerto Rico in 1972. In 1999 she graduated with a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD Scholarship). She received a degree in Fine Arts in 1993 and a degree in Architecture in 1994 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Scholarship). She worked for the Architecture Research Office (ARO) in New York for three years and for Gustavo Gili Publishing from 2000 to 2004.

She has been a visiting professor of architecture at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya from 1999 to 2002; a third-year professor of the Interior Design Workshop focusing on domestic space at Elisava Escola de Disseny, Barcelona from 2001 to 2008; the Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin in 2017 and a visiting professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017.

She is currently the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and Chair of Graduate Architecture in the College of Architecture and the Sam Fox Graduate School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Emiliano López Matas was born in Argentina in 1971 and grew up in Barcelona. In 2012 he received his PhD in Architecture from the Universitat Politèctina de Catalunya, with the thesis entitled “6107 MSD. Peabody Terrace: Keys to a design process led by Josep Lluís Sert”. In 1999 he received a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (a scholarship from the Real Colegio Complutense de Madrid) and in 1997 he received a Master’s degree in “History: Art, City and Architecture” from the UPC, ETSA Barcelona. He graduated in Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vallès in 1996.

He taught at the School of Architecture of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus from 2006 to 2008 and at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2001-2004). He was an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and co-director of the school's Barcelona Architecture Program from 2004 to 2007; Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vallès from 2001 to 2004 and Adjunct Professor from 2008 to 2014. Finally, he was a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017.

He is currently a Full Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at the Sam Fox Faculty of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.