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Maria Arquero de Alarcon

Assistant Professor

Office: 1248A

marquero@umich.edu

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Maria Arquero has been appointed as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in urban and regional planning and architecture. Originally from Spain, she is a licensed architect and urban designer. Her most recent work focuses on the interface between landscape and urbanism, and issues of interpretation and representation. Additional research interests include the use, management, and design of public open space with a strong environmental concern. Arquero has collaborated with Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, an urban design and architecture firm based in Cambridge, and also has an independent practice with projects in Bahrain, Mexico, and Spain. She received a degree in architecture from the ETSA Madrid, a master’s in landscape architecture from the ETH Zurich, and a master’s of landscape architecture in urban design from Harvard University GSD.