Beatriz Ramo NL

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Beatriz Ramo / STAR strategies + architecture

Beatriz Ramo López de Angulo (Spain, 1979) is a recognised critical voice in the field of collective housing. She challenges the ongoing standardisation of housing production. Her research and built work advocate for adaptable designs that respond to the diversity and evolving needs of contemporary households—a position that has made a significant contribution to the debate on housing quality. Beatriz was awarded the ARVHA National French Prize for Female Architects in 2024. She is managing contributing editor of MONU – Magazine on Urbanism and served on the Scientific Committee of the AIGP- Atelier International du Grand Paris (2012–2016), advising the French government on housing solutions.
In 2006, she founded her office STAR strategies + architecture in Rotterdam.

STAR is a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms. STAR works on projects and research of any scale in the fields of architecture and urbanism, taking responsibility for all phases of the process — from concept to completion. The office has won awards in international competitions for housing, public buildings, and urban planning in France, the Netherlands, China, Iceland, Lebanon, Norway, and Spain, as well as several distinctions — including awards granted by Architizer, Archello, FRAME, Azure Awards, Architectenweb, and MIX Interiors.

The portfolio of STAR covers a wide range of projects, from The Cabanon — a 7 m² fully equipped mini-apartment with a spa in Rotterdam — to a Ferris wheel–railway station hybrid in Elche. Over the last decade, STAR has developed a strong focus on adaptable and evolutive housing, culminating in START-Ivry, a 288-dwelling experimental collective housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, Greater Paris. STAR’s work has been widely published in major international media, including The New York Times, El País, and leading architecture magazines such as Arquitectura Viva, Casabella, AA Files, Arch+, Le Moniteur, Domus, Abitare, or Deutsche Bauzeitung.