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Dr Melina Guirnaldos Diaz
(she/her)
Lecturer in Architecture Design I BSc 1 Chair
Publication
2024
- Guirnaldos Diaz, M. 2024. The value of Post-Industrial heritage: Exploring alternative preservation strategies in Poblenou. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2018
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2018. “Huellas: Grutas de Hércules, Tánger (Marruecos) / Interacciones en cooperación: Misiones Jesuitas en el Lago Tana (Etiopia). Proyecto Europeo EMUVE” [Imprints: Hercules’ Caves, Tangier (Morocco) / Interactions in Cooperation: Jesuit Missions around Lake Tana (Ethiopia). European Project EMUVE], in Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. In: Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. [Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial]. Granada University Press, pp. 441-465.
2015
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2015. Urban activation in a post-crisis Euro-Mediterranean scenario. Urban Design and Planning 168(DP6), pp. 288-292. (10.1680/jurdp.15.00019)
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2015. EMUVE European Research Project. Social identity values for self-management strategies in post industrial reactivation: Campo Boario (Rome) and Can Battlo (Barcelona). Presented at: CHAT 2015. Contemporary and Historical Archeology in Theory, Sheffield, UK, 30 October – 1 November, 2015 Presented at Pillatt, T., Moore, K. and Johnston, B. eds.Conference Proceedings of CHAT 2015. Contemporary and Historical Archeology in Theory. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press
2014
- Davis, J., Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2014. Heritage, culture and regeneration: the role of coal in the future of Cardiff Bay. Presented at: Heritage 2014: 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Guimarães, Portugal, July 22-25, 2014Heritage 2014 – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Vol. 1. Green Lines Institute pp. 521-529.
Articles
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2015. Urban activation in a post-crisis Euro-Mediterranean scenario. Urban Design and Planning 168(DP6), pp. 288-292. (10.1680/jurdp.15.00019)
Book sections
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2018. “Huellas: Grutas de Hércules, Tánger (Marruecos) / Interacciones en cooperación: Misiones Jesuitas en el Lago Tana (Etiopia). Proyecto Europeo EMUVE” [Imprints: Hercules’ Caves, Tangier (Morocco) / Interactions in Cooperation: Jesuit Missions around Lake Tana (Ethiopia). European Project EMUVE], in Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. In: Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. [Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial]. Granada University Press, pp. 441-465.
Conferences
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2015. EMUVE European Research Project. Social identity values for self-management strategies in post industrial reactivation: Campo Boario (Rome) and Can Battlo (Barcelona). Presented at: CHAT 2015. Contemporary and Historical Archeology in Theory, Sheffield, UK, 30 October – 1 November, 2015 Presented at Pillatt, T., Moore, K. and Johnston, B. eds.Conference Proceedings of CHAT 2015. Contemporary and Historical Archeology in Theory. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press
- Davis, J., Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2014. Heritage, culture and regeneration: the role of coal in the future of Cardiff Bay. Presented at: Heritage 2014: 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Guimarães, Portugal, July 22-25, 2014Heritage 2014 – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Vol. 1. Green Lines Institute pp. 521-529.
Thesis
- Guirnaldos Diaz, M. 2024. The value of Post-Industrial heritage: Exploring alternative preservation strategies in Poblenou. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Biography
Melina Guirnaldos Díaz is a qualified Architect and Lecturer in Architecture Design at the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA). Her research interests evolve around the search for design principles outside mainstream heritage studies to better address the issue of heritage value, including questions of tangibility and politics in conservation practices with a particular focus on urban Post-industrial heritage from a multiscalar approach. She is also interested in exploring how female designers contribute to its understanding and the social construction of its significance.
Prior to joining the WSA as a Lecturer, Melina worked as a Heritage conservation consultant for the Andalucía Regional Government in Spain and the research project Euro- Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology (EMUVE), funded by the European Commission under the programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, aimed at the search for innovative design methodologies to re-activate urban landscapes in crisis. In 2007, Melina co-founded W+G Architects, where she has developed international projects such as the Landscape Intervention and Restoration of the Palace of the Emperor Susenyos and the Jesuit cathedral in Ethiopia, the competition for the urban regeneration of Santiago de Chile Government area (3rd prize) or the restoration of the Oratory of the Partal mosque in the Alhambra awarded in 2019 with the prestigious Grand Prix Europa Nostra 2019 and Europa Nostra 2019.
Professional memberships
- The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) member
- Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) member
Contact Details
+44 29206 87728
Bute Building, Room Room T.12, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
