Maria Elisa Navarro Morales is Assistant Professor of History of Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin. She graduated as an architect from the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (1999), and holds an M.A. (2006) and a PhD (2013) in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University, Canada. Before coming to Ireland, she taught architecture in Canada and Colombia. Her research interests focus on early modern architecture, architectural theory, and architectural books in Europe and its colonies. She is currently completing a monograph on Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1606–82) and his treatise Architectura civil recta y obliqua (1678–79). In 2023, Professor Navarro Morales co-edited with Professor Juan Luis Burke a thematic number on architects’s books in H-Art. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Crítica de Arte. Her most recent project, A Portal to the Fagel Collection, is a collaboration with Professor Emily Monty (University of Kansas), where they use a surviving eighteenth-century Dutch library, they investigate the visual and spatial aspects of early modern collecting and displaying practices in domestic environments.
