While studying painting at Emilio Pettoruti's studio, she met her future OAM colleague, partner, and husband, the architect Horacio Baliero [es], with whom she had three daughters.

Their work in the studio of Maldonado, Hlito and Carlos Méndez Mosquera would give rise to the publishing house Nueva Visión, fundamental in the translation of modern texts into Castilian.

This coincided with her work, together with Solsona and Katzenstein, drafting the Plan for the South District of the city of Buenos Aires, directed by Antoni Bonet.

[3] Like many OAM members, Córdova was a university professor, a post she left after the bloody action against students by the dictatorship in 1966, known as "La Noche de los Bastones Largos" (The Night of the Long Batons).

[3] Córdova and Baliero won the competition to design the Colegio Mayor Universitario Hispano Argentino Nuestra Señora de Luján in Madrid,[6] which led them to move there with their three daughters in 1966.

In 1994 she was elected dean of the FADU unanimously, but despite that support she was unable to achieve her dream of an academic program that was closer to the ideals of the Bauhaus that she admired so much.

In 2001 Carmen Córdova wrote the book Memorias de modernidad (Memoirs of Modernity) as a rebellious response to an unjust world that did not satisfy her and with which she totally disagreed.