Born in Madrid in 1995, Dana Barale Burdman is a Madrid-based architect, with studies from the University of Bath and Delft University of Technology.
She has been granted with La Caixa Foundation Fellowship to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Harvard.
The development of projects she carries out is positioned within a framework that operates from multidisciplinary exploration through design, research, and criticism of the visual imagery of our time. She is positioned in the defense of a transdisciplinary approach focused on the interest of architecture and media studies. Through her professional exercise, she advocates understanding architecture and narrative as critical and subversive analytical tools through cultural production practice, conceptual practices, and speculative design.
She has built an architectural installation at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism 2021 and some of her work has been exhibited at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. She received the COAM Award (Architects Association) for her Graduation Project, and the Archdaily ́s: 'Best Final Projects from Latin America and Spain 2021' Prize. She has been a Nominee at RIBA Presidents Medals Awards and at YTAA by Mies Van der Rohe Foundation for her final Master Thesis Project.
She has been a guest lecturer on media culture and architecture at various institutions and she served as a teacher in the Master's Degree in Architectural Communication at the ETSAM (UPM).
Her work has been published in several media such as Pool UCLA, Archdaily, UC Berkeley Journal, Koozarch, Experimental Realism by RIBA, Seoul Biennale of Architecture printed book, Cartographies of the Imagination, Plurality University, The Urban Transcript Journal, among others.
Dana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture (2018) and a Master’s degree in Architecture (2019). Dana was awarded with the Prize for 'Best Student of the Promotion for Best Transcript of Academic Record' and the 'Excellence Scholarships' at UEM. She was granted with a Research Project Fellowship from the City Council of Madrid having the opportunity to participate as assistant editor of the publication: 'Urban Regeneration for Social Cohesion' (UEM). She has professional experience in various architectural studios in both Rotterdam, Brussels, and Madrid.
Her contemporary visual research practice for critical thinking foster the challenges and potential of digital culture as both a discipline and a context.