Dr. Ana Bonet Miro is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Architectural Technology at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), The University of Edinburgh, and a chartered architect in UK (2018-) and in Spain (2000-2013). She holds a Diploma in Architecture (Polytechnic University of Valencia,1999) and a Doctor of Philosophy (University of Edinburgh, 2021).

Her research is concerned with the critical examination of architectural design, theory and history, by engaging methods and discourses from other disciplinary fields, most importantly cultural and media studies. Her monograph Architecture, Media, Archives. The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024) investigates a main 1960s radical architecture, the Fun Palace by influential British architect Cedric Price – a well-researched project at the apex of his critical practice and with salient actuality for its minimal, user-led, civic architectures informed by circular material economies. Through in-depth archival research and by sieving mass media repositories through visual analysis, the study decentres the architectural narrative of the project in favour of its ambitious, diverse yet understudied cultural agenda, and questions its reception by recovering the key role Joan Littlewood played in its production. She has also published in Architecture and Culture, ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly and RA:Revista de Arquitectura, is an author in Drawing Matter, and has contributed to the podcast series Power & Public Space by the Architecture Foundation and Drawing Mater (2022). She is currently co-curating the touring exhibition Thinkbelt across several schools of architecture in UK (2024-25).

Ana teaches architectural design and architectural theory across the undergraduate and postgraduate professional programmes at ESALA and has held the positions of ESALA Exchanges Coordinator and Acting ESALA Research Director. Her design studios Crossing Panamá (MArch, 2021-2023) and Crossing Tangier (MArch, 2023-) aim to interrogate the complexity of architectural practice in post-colonial contexts and embed international exchanges to pluralise architecture’s modes of production. This research-led design is supported by her seminar The Architect in the Archive (2021-2024) as part of the MArch course Studies in Contemporary Architectural Theory. She has previously been Course Organiser and studio leader in Year 4 and Year 2 MA/BA Architecture programme.

Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2015, she lectured and practised in Spain, co-founding the architectural practice bblab in Madrid in 2000. Her professional work has been awarded and published internationally, such as Elemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual (2012, 2016),  Häuser Award 2012 (München, 2012); Madrid 100%II (Madrid 2011); Informes de la Construcción (CSIC, Madrid, 2007), Arquitectos, Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Madrid, 2007), among others.