Master in Architecture II, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Bachelor of Architecture, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Maria Ferrari (b. San Juan, Argentina) is a designer engaged in both architecture and visual storytelling. Rooted in formal expression yet attuned to image and atmosphere, Ferrari’s practice explores the intersection of spatial design and ambient presence. She is drawn to the aesthetics of transition and infrastructure, often working through analog processes such as physical models, collage, photography, and mixed media as narrative tools. Her design work engages themes of tectonics, landscape, adaptive reuse, and housing, with published work featured in Revista Casas.
Ferrari has long pursued research in the 20th-century architecture and has contributed to several research projects on the topic. She has illustrated numerous publications, including Crítica Arquitectónica en la Década Perdida (2022) and Conversos y Creyentes: La Arquitectura del Posmodernismo en Lima (2020), contributing visual languages that accompany and expand architectural discourse.
Recently, Ferrari taught a full academic year at Wentworth Institute of Technology, leading Studio 02 in the spring and Studio 03 in the fall. She was also a guest critic at Northeastern University, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, and the Universidad de Lima.
Ferrari holds a Master in Architecture II (2024) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture (2019) from the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, where her thesis on a 20th-century Visual Arts Museum in Lima received first prize. In 2014, she also completed extension courses in Textiles and Technology at Rhode Island School of Design.
