E. (Elena) Martínez Millana
E. (Elena) Martínez Millana
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Elena M. Millana is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow (Ministry of Universities, Government of Spain, funded by the European Union) at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
Research interests
Her research focuses on collective housing beyond the nuclear family, namely on individual small living units that are often complemented by use options that offer more complex ways of living together.
She is a member of the Collective Housing (UPM) and Architecture Archives of the Future (TU Delft) research groups and a research associate at the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Nieuwe Instituut, in Rotterdam.
Academic background
Elena holds a Master and PhD in Advanced Architectural Projects (UPM), with the ‘Cum Laude’ and ‘International Doctorate’ distinctions, and she received the ‘Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award 2020-2021’ (UPM).
Expertise
Publications
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2024
Designing Collective Housing for Older People
Proposals from the Dutch Welfare State by Pot & Pot-Keegstra
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2024-3-5
Domesticidad ‘entre rejas’
Proyecto de Rem Koolhaas/OMA para la prisión Panóptica en Arnhem (1979-1988)
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2023
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2023
Critic|all V International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism
Conference Proceedings
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2023
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Prizes
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2023-1-11
Doctoral Thesis Awards Honourable Mention by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid
In the original language "Mención de Honor" in "Premios de Tesis Doctoral 2022" awarded by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) to Elena Martínez Millana for her Doctoral Thesis: Domesticity "behind bars": Project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the Panoptic Prison in Arnhem (2021).
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2022-11-23
Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
In the original language "Premio Extraordinario de Tesis Doctoral 2020-21", awarded by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid to Elena Martínez Millana for her Doctoral Thesis: Domesticity "behind bars": Project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the Panoptic Prison in Arnhem.
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2021
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Ministry of Universities, Spanish Government) funded by the European Union (Next Generation EU programme)
Competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship for three years (01/01/2022-31/12/2024) . The first two years at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Architecture. The third year at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Departamento de Proyectos.
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2019
Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant by the European Union (PhD Arch.)
Twelve-month European Union Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant at the Department of Architecture, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, supervised by Prof. Dick van Gameren.
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2019
Social Council Grant by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
The three-month competitive UPM Social Council Grant for a PhD research stay at the Department of Architecture, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, supervised by Prof. Dick van Gameren.