I am passionate about architecture, color and people.
I am María Corrales Orovio, an architect focused on urban art, born in Madrid in 1994. I spent my first years of life in France and Belgium and finally returned to Madrid where I would later graduate in Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid.
In 2013 I met the work of the artistic collective Boa Mistura and in 2016, while I was doing my fourth year in the Atacama Desert (Chile), I had the opportunity to be part for the first time of a participatory art project with them, with whom from then on I could develop and grow as a professional in different parts of the world until 2022.
In 2018 I directed as part of the collective the project 'El alma no tiene color', in the Cañada Real (Madrid), and after the experience in 2022 developing the project 'Miroir' in Nîmes (France), my first solo project, I decided to start discovering and telling my own story.
I am interested in continuing to learn and develop this form of urban transformation, to continue working through technique, geometry, and color to reactivate spaces that invite us to relate, interact, and live together.
In 2013 I met the work of the artistic collective Boa Mistura and in 2016, while I was doing my fourth year in the Atacama Desert (Chile), I had the opportunity to be part for the first time of a participatory art project with them, with whom from then on I could develop and grow as a professional in different parts of the world until 2022.
In 2018 I directed as part of the collective the project 'El alma no tiene color', in the Cañada Real (Madrid), and after the experience in 2022 developing the project 'Miroir' in Nîmes (France), my first solo project, I decided to start discovering and telling my own story.
I am interested in continuing to learn and develop this form of urban transformation, to continue working through technique, geometry, and color to reactivate spaces that invite us to relate, interact, and live together.
Experience
Experience in Boa Mistura
HOGAR
Madrid, Spain.
2022
ENTRE CERRO Y MAR
Antofagasta, Chile.
2022
TRILLENDE LENTE
Heerlen, Netherlands.
2021
UNIÓN
CDMX, Mexico/ Medellin, Colombia/ San Juan, Puerto Rico/ Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/ Santiago de Chile, Chile/ Madrid, Spain.
2021
AVENIR
Bouillargues, France.
2021
NOS ESTÁN APAGANDO
Madrid, Spain.
2021
RENCONTRE
Paris, France.
2020
REFUGIO
Madrid, Spain.
2020
CENTRO DE JUVENTUD
Tenerife, Spain.
2020
BAUHAUS
Berlin, Germany.
2019
SOMOS
Mérida, Spain.
2019
SIMBIOSIS
Gran Canaria, Spain.
2019
EL ALMA NO TIENE COLOR
Cañada Real - Madrid, Spain.
2018
MÁSCARAS DE LA TIRANA
Antofagasta, Chile.
2016
Studies
Masters degree in architecture
ETSAM UPM - Madrid, Spain.
2018-2019
Bachelor's degree in architecture
Universidad Católica del Norte (International exchange program) - Antofagasta, Chile.
2016-2017
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
ETSAM UPM - Madrid, Spain.
2012-2017
Acknowledgments
Premio model +. Model festival de arquitectures
Barcelona, Spain.
2023
Exhibitions and publications
FLORITURAS
Sophie Aguilera x María Orovio. Exhibition at Galería Échale Guindas. Madrid, Spain.
2024
INTANGIBLE MATERIALS
Conference at the ATHENS programme in UPM.
2024
LA PALOMA X MARÍA OROVIO
Exhibition at La Paloma Design Studio V67.
2024
EVERcIENDO A TRAVÉS DEL COLOR
Article in magazine Tectónica.
2023
ejerciendo a través del color
Conference at COAM.
2022
ejerciendo a través del color
Conference at COAM.
2022
EL alma no tiene color
Publication in magazine Pasages.
2018