Marina Otero
Marina Otero Verzier (A Coruña, 1981) is a Spanish architect, academic, and researcher. She received the Wheelwright Prize in 2022.
Also recorded as Marina Otero Verzier
Marina Otero
- Name
- Marina Otero
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- A Coruña, Spain
- Education
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid
- Occupation
- Architect, academic, researcher
- Awards
- 2022 Wheelwright Prize
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- architecture · architecture and society · spatial planning · exhibition curation
- Honours
- Wheelwright Prize
- Languages
- English
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Marina Otero Verzier (A Coruña, 1981) is a Spanish architect, academic, and researcher. She received the Wheelwright Prize in 2022.
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Marina Otero (born 1981 in A Coruña) is a Spanish architect, exhibition curator and scientist.
Marina Otero studied at Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. The architect worked for Design Academy Eindhoven and worked in Rotterdam. Marina Otero is active in architecture, architecture and society and exhibition curation. Awards and honours include Wheelwright Prize.
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Biography
Marina Otero studied at Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture, architecture and society and spatial planning. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rotterdam. Employment is recorded with Design Academy Eindhoven. Distinctions recorded are Wheelwright Prize.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Marina Otero • Born — 1981 • Birthplace — A Coruña, Spain • Education — Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid • Occupation — Architect, academic, researcher • Awards — 2022 Wheelwright Prize
Biography
Biography
Otero studied architecture at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. In 2013, as a Fulbright Scholar, she graduated with an MS in critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices in architecture from Columbia GSAPP, and in 2016 she completed her PhD at the ETSAM with the thesis Evanescent Institutions, which examined the emergence of a new paradigm for cultural institutions. Between 2013 and 2015, Otero was the director of Global Network Programming at Studio X, Columbia GSAPP. In 2014, she was announced as Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale alongside the Spanish collective After Belonging Agency. One year later, she was named Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch institute for architecture, design and digital culture, leading initiatives such as Automated Landscapes, focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labor, and BURN-OUT: Exhaustion on a planetary scale, instigating forms of care for multispecies, collective bodies. In 2018, Otero was the curator of WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Since 2019, Marina has held the position of Head of the Social Design Master's program at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In 2020, she was part of the curatorial team for Bodies of Water, the theme for the 13th Shanghai Biennale, alongside You Mi, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and Andrés Jaque, who acted as Chief Curator. In 2022, she received the Wheelwright Prize with the proposal Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, an examination of a new architecture paradigm for storing digital data. Since 2023, Otero has been part of the Architecture and Design Advisory Committee of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain.
Selected exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
• Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective by Jonas Staal (2018) • Spirits in the Material World (2019) • Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection (co-curator, 2019) • I See That I See What You Don’t See at Triennale di Milano (2019).
Identity
Identity
Marina Otero is recorded with the occupation exhibition curator. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Otero worked at Rotterdam. Recorded as having studied at Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. Career and activity. Otero worked in architecture, architecture and society, spatial planning and exhibition curation. She was employed by Design Academy Eindhoven. She worked at Rotterdam.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1981
Marina Otero born at A Coruña.
Selected publications
• Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series (co-editor, 2016) • After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay In Transit (co-editor, 2016) • Work, Body, Leisure (editor, 2018) • Architecture of Appropriation (co-editor, 2019) • More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Lucia Pietroiusti, 2020)
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- 1.Florian, Maria-Cristina. Marina Otero Wins 2022 Wheelwright Prize with a Project Focused on Data Storage Architecture. ArchDaily. 2022-06-14.
- 2.Marina Otero Verzier. Royal College of Art.
- 3.Marina Otero Verzier. Columbia GSAPP.
- 4.Petrik, Jeannette. Marina Otero Verzier: "There aren't many spaces in society where we can be critical yet vulnerable". Design Academy Eindhoven.
- 5.Taylor-Foster, James. Curatorial Team Announced For The 2016 Oslo Triennale. ArchDaily. 2014-12-10.
- 6.Marina Otero: "La arquitectura ha tenido al ser humano como centro, en particular, al hombre blanco". CNN Chile. 2023-01-20.
- 7.Erman, Maria. WORK, BODY, LEISURE: dutch pavilion at the venice architecture biennale. designboom. 2018-05-25.
- 8.The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water - Announcements - e-flux. e-flux.
- 9.Espino, Luisa. En el nuevo Reina Sofía también caben Rosalía y C. Tangana. El Español. 2023-09-22.
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