Maria met Jonathan Miller at Exit Studios, Lisbon, in the 1990s, collaborating with him on his chill-out/jazz fusion album, Afterdark (BMG-PT/Dawg Records), where she co-wrote and performed two tracks on the album: ‘Leva Me’ and ‘Sensual’. Her first album, ‘Caminhando até ti’ (EMI/Dawg Records), was produced by Fernando Cunha and written/arranged by Pedro Ayres Magalhães of Madredeus, featuring a duet with Rui Veloso the second album, ‘Coisas Simples’ (Zona Musica/Dawg Records), was written by Maria, produced by Fernando Cunha and co-produced by João Gomes. in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture from MIT, a Master in Design Studies with distinction from the Harvard GSD, a Master in Architecture from Georgia Tech, and an architecture diploma from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.Maria has been a songwriter and performer since the ‘90s in her home country of Portugal and has already released two solo albums worldwide. She is a support member of Dark Matter University (DMU, 2020-) and a former member and co-founder of the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC, 2013–2020). She serves on the advisory boards of GAHTC, The Architecture Lobby, Thresholds, and Anales de Arquitectura, and is editor-at-large at The Avery Review. León is an active member of several collaborations laboring to broaden the reach of architectural history including the Settler Colonial City Project (SCCP, 2019-), Nuestro Norte es el Sur (2018-), and Detroit Resists (2016–2018).
Several of her courses fulfill the Humanities and/or Race and Ethnicity requirements. María León Defender A young but physical central defender, María Pilar Mapi León stands out for her versatility. She encourages her students to think about how the ways in which we shape our environments both reveal and inform how we relate to one another. León’s courses examine transnational histories of art and architecture by discussing the intersection of political, economic, and cultural systems with the design and representation of buildings and landscapes. She is affiliated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Additional work examines sites of dissensus, the spatial politics of resistance, and architecture’s complicities with capital, nationalism, and dispossession.Īt the University of Michigan León holds appointments at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in the departments of History of Art and Romance Languages and Literatures, she also co-directs the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop the Decolonizing Pedagogies Workshop (DPW). Her upcoming book, Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires, examines the relationship between modern architecture housing projects, the populations they claim to serve, and the totalitarian states that seek to control them. A second book project, Counter-institutions: Producing Pedagogies of Freedom, turns to the potential of the museum, the prison, and the school, institutions traditionally associated with power, to produce counter-narratives to oppressive regimes. Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent. She brings 10+ years of experience in the architectural, engineering, interior design & planning industry. Unique Maria Leon Posters designed and sold by artists. Special Interests: Boating, family dinners, and vacations to Disney. The focus of her research is the intersection of modernity, politics, architecture and art, with emphasis in hemispheric connections across the Americas, as well as transnational networks across the Atlantic. Maria is the Director of Accounting, US at NORR. Her research, teaching, and practice examines the modernity of the Americas and its transcontinental flows, with particular focus on how different publics relate to each other through spatial practices and discourses of power and resistance. Ana María León is an architect and a historian of objects, buildings, and landscapes.
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