Feliz Ricoy, Sálvora

Sálvora Feliz Ricoy (Ourense, 1986) holds a PhD in Architecture jointly awarded by the University of São Paulo and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She graduated as an architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2012 and completed the Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design, specializing in Technological Innovation Processes, the following year. Her doctoral dissertation, XL Residential Infrastructures: The Evolution of Large-Scale Mass Housing Production, was defended in 2022.

As a researcher, she has published in indexed academic journals, authored more than thirty peer-reviewed conference papers, and contributed to over forty books and book chapters. She has participated as both speaker and organizer in scientific conferences and has been involved in numerous research projects.

Her architectural work has received recognition through awards including the Emporia Awards, the COAM and CTAV Awards, the IDA Design Awards, the Cetem Design Awards, and the Arquia Foundation Biennial, among others. Her work has also been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021, 2018, and 2016), the XII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, La Casa Encendida, INJUVE, and MediaLab Prado.

In the field of teaching, she joined the Department of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in 2018, where she currently serves as a permanent faculty member. She teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including in the Master’s Programme in Advanced Architectural Design (UPM) and the Master’s Programme in Architectural Co-Mediation (UPM–UCM). She has also taught in the Master’s Degree in Public Service Audiovisual Communication at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Studio 11 of the Master’s Programme at the Umeå School of Architecture, and the second-year design studio at the University of California, Berkeley.

She currently serves as Academic Secretary of the Department of Architectural Design and has previously participated in the management of other academic programmes, including the PhD Programme in Architectural Communication and the Master’s Programme in Advanced Architectural Design at UPM.