AQ Top 5 Latin American Academics: Mónica Ponce de León
AQ Top 5 Latin American Academics: Mónica Ponce de León
An architect who embraces digital technology in an era when some have questioned her discipline’s relevance.
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As a child growing up in booming, prosperous 1970s Caracas, Mónica Ponce de León found inspiration for a future career in the modernist architecture springing up around her.
“Everyone felt that the buildings represented the progressive culture of the city,” Ponce de León, now 50, told AQ a few months into her tenure as dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture. She is the first woman and Latin American to hold...
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