Maria Esnaola is an architectural designer and educator. She is a registered Architect in Spain and Fulbright Scholar holding a Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Design and a Master’s of Advanced Architectural Research from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Through her office in Los Angeles and as board of directors for the LAForum for Architecture and Urban Design she seeks to interfere in current debates over the future of urban landscapes by studying the city as a physical phenomenon and as a cultural artifact. Esnaola is an adjunct assistant professor at University of Southern California School of Architecture and is currently visiting Christian Kerez’ chair at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.