TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga

TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga (in collaboration with the MIT Morningside Academy for Design)
Part of the MIT Fall 2026 Architecture Lecture Series.
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group

Unlearning the Anthropocene
Architecture after Human Exceptionalism

The lecture presents TAKK's design methodology through a selection of research and built projects that challenge anthropocentric assumptions in contemporary architecture. Integrating feminist thought, political ecology, and low-embedded-carbon material practices, it explores how critical theory becomes a design tool for questioning inherited spatial paradigms. Through research, experimentation, and construction, the lecture proposes architecture as a practice of negotiating new relationships between humans, other living beings, materials, and environmental systems, imagining more just, regenerative, and multispecies futures.

Mireia Luzárraga is an architect, researcher, educator, and co-founder of TAKK, an architecture and research practice based in Barcelona and New York, together with Alejandro Muiño. Her work explores the intersection of architecture, ecology, feminism, and politics, investigating how spatial practice can foster more equitable forms of life and new material imaginaries for the built environment.

She is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP. In 2024, she was invited as Studio Critic at the SEKISUI HOUSE–KENGO KUMA Lab at the University of Tokyo. She has also taught and lectured internationally at institutions including Harvard GSD, ETH Zürich, Kyoto University, the Royal College of Art, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and die Angewandte Vienna.

Luzárraga is co-editor of 100 Words for Water (Lars Müller Publishers) and co-curator of the Catalan Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2025). She has been named among Forbes' 50 Architects to Watch and AD's Most Influential Architects, and her work has received numerous international distinctions, including the FAD Award, Design Vanguard Award, COAM Award, and Best Archilovers Project Award.

Her work is held in the collections of institutions including the Vitra Design Museum, mudac Lausanne, FRAC Centre Val-de-Loire, MAK Center Los Angeles, and Disseny Hub Barcelona, while her practice spans public commissions and collaborations with clients such as MAXXI, Hermès, Moncler, Vitra, and Swatch.

This lecture will be held in person in the Sidara Auditorium (W41- 1216) and streamed online on YouTube.

Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required.