María Mallo graduated from Madrid’s Superior Technical School of Architecture of (ETSAM) in 2006, going on to teach graphic design at this same school, as well as product design at Barcelona’s European Institute of Design (IED). Her project Inhabiting the Sky, designed with the architect Ana Penalba, was selected for the Thyssenkrupp Award in 2011. Her research deals with the geometric shapes generated by nature, and with self-production. Her projects incorporate a bio-climactic dimension, and pose questions about the natural landscape (Inhabiting the Sky, 2011; Eco-Centro, in progress). In 2005, María Mallo co-founded the design and architecture collective Léon 11, creating a number of projects as part of this including Belén de Botellas (Madrid, 2010): urban itinerant furniture that is modular and made of colored plastic bottles. Between 2011 and 2016 she was co-manager of Mecedorama, a business dedicated to artisan manufacturing and the creation of customized furniture.
