Remodeling of the reading room of the Banco de España library, by Matilde Peralta del Amo

Matilde Peralta del Amo was born in Madrid, in 1966, in a family dedicated to puppets. At eleven the was already part of the family company, with which she toured, many theaters in Spain and Europe. She studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where she later did the master’s degree in Bioclimatic Architecture and Environment.

Matilde Peralta has had great teachers, worked with Víctor López Cotelo and for sixteen years in the office of Mansilla y Tuñón, architects. She has been a professor at the Toledo School of Architecture at the University of Castilla La Mancha and at the Superior School of Design in Madrid.

She has been commissioned with projects and rehabilitation works mainly, such as the Navalmoral de la Mata Market Theater (Cáceres), the Reading Room of the Bank of Spain and the Archive of San Fernando (currently under construction) and many competitions of architecture.

She coordinates her work in the architecture office with other experiences in the field of architecture, design and research with fabrics and tapestries. Between 2005 and 2012 he has taken summer courses on textiles at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (London).