María Arquero de Alarcón

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning
Teaching Areas
Physical Planning and Design, Global and Comparative Planning, Social Justice and Urban Development
Connect
Office: Liberty Research Annex

María Arquero de Alarcón is an associate professor of architecture and urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College. Her work advances urban strategies promoting cultural and environmental values in territories under conditions of scarcity. María leads MAde Studio, a research-based, collaborative design practice that offers integrated expertise in architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Through a combination of grant-funded research initiatives, urban design experimentation, and site-specific interventions, MAde Studio focuses on the co-generation of socio-spatial strategies addressing urban transformation in collaboration with local partners and residents. Her design and research has been recognized with an ACSA Collaborative Practice Award (2019), AIA Michigan Design Awards (2013-2015), BSA Award Citations (2013-2014) and an ACSA Faculty Design Award (2012).

Her work is published in the edited volumes The Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan of the Great Lakes Region and Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City; Sustainability; the Michigan Journal of Sustainability; Architect Magazine’s Next Progressives; PLOT; Green and Building Design; and other publications. She has exhibited work in the 2017 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the University of Tennessee and the University of Minnesota. María holds an architecture professional degree from Madrid Polytechnic University, a master of advanced studies in landscape architecture from E.T.H. Zurich, and a master of landscape architecture in urban design from Harvard University, where she received the award for Urban Design Academic Excellence. The Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies “Obra Social La Caixa” made possible her academic journey in the US.

Projects

Feb 2, 2021
Jan 28, 2021

Courses

UD 732, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: El Hadi Jazairy, María Arquero de Alarcón, Claudia Wigger
ARCH 672, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Perry Kulper, María Arquero de Alarcón, El Hadi Jazairy, Ryan Ball, Claudia Wigger, Lars Gräbner, Geoffrey Thün, Jose Sanchez
UD 715, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón, Gabriel Cuéllar
URP 551
Fall 2020
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 562
Winter 2021
Instructors: Craig Borum, Jen Maigret, María Arquero de Alarcón, El Hadi Jazairy, Roy Strickland, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov
UD 722
Winter 2021
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón, Kathy Velikov, Geoffrey Thün, Roy Strickland, El Hadi Jazairy
UD 715
Winter 2021
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
URP 551
Fall 2021
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
UD 717
Fall 2021
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 509, Section 8
Fall 2021
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 562
Winter 2022
Instructors: Robert Adams, Claudia Wigger, María Arquero de Alarcón, Sharon Haar, Geoffrey Thün, Jen Maigret, Adam Miller, Leah Wulfman
UD 715
Winter 2022
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
UD 722
Winter 2022
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón, Claudia Wigger
URP 551
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
URP 551
Fall 2022
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 509, Section 8
Fall 2022
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 509, Section 17
Fall 2022
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
UD 715
Winter 2023
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 672, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Lars Gräbner, Christina Hansen, María Arquero de Alarcón, Anya Sirota, Claudia Wigger, El Hadi Jazairy, Sharon Haar, Michael Kennedy, Perry Kulper, Stratton Coffman, Laura Marie Peterson
URP 551
Fall 2023
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
ARCH 509, Section 8
Fall 2023
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón
UD 732, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: El Hadi Jazairy, María Arquero de Alarcón, Anya Sirota, Sharon Haar
UD 715, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón, Gabriel Cuéllar
ARCH 409, Section 4
Spring 2024
Instructors: María Arquero de Alarcón