Nuria Alvarez Coll holds a Phd in Architecture at Cresson Laboratory – Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG). She is interested in studying how in the field of architecture, the use of raw materials – that is, those that keep the state least distant from its state of origin as earth, straw, stone and wood, for example – could help us to take root in our world.

Nuria specialised in Earth Architecture at the CRAterre laboratory at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Grenoble. From 2013 to 2017, she integrated amàco’s project, where she developed the contents and teaching methods to enhance the use of raw materials in higher education through a transdisciplinary approach. At the same time she studied architecture in Barcelona, she took theater classes based on Lecoq Methodology. In 2012, she founded the theater company Colectivo Terron where she is artistic director and actress.

Her distinguished publications include the article in the journal Le Philotope « Matière, source d’émotions » (2016), her communication in the XII Congress on Earth Architecture « Le langage de la matière » (2016) and more recently in the 4th International Congress of Ambiances « Raw Materials and Emphasis on Tactile Perceptions to Create Atmospheres. A Tactile Experiment to Explore Bodily Sensations ».