Dr. Naiara Vegara

Naiara Vegara, PhD, is an architect who studied at the Architectural Association (AA), London. She is Vice-President of the Metropoli Foundation and Director of Metropoli CITIESLAB, a laboratory that specialises in strategic urbanism at the intersection of urban design, landscape, and architecture.

She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities. She served for 14 years as Programme Director of the Architectural Association Semester Programme in London. Her research focuses on culturally responsive city design narratives for urban regeneration.

She run a six-year design research programme entitled Streetware that informed her doctoral research, Retrofitting Historic Cores into Cultural and Creative Districts in Southeast Asia. She received her PhD in Strategic Urbanism and Architecture from the University of Navarra, Spain.