Laura Patricia Spinadel (7 July 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Austrian Argentine architect, urban planner, writer, educator and principal of the firm BUSarchitektur and of the company BOA büro für offensive aleatorik in Vienna.
[1][2] Laura P. Spinadel has made an international name based on her Compact City [3] and Campus WU [de] works, both considered pioneers of the holistic architecture ideology.
[8] In the mid-1980s, Spinadel taught at the University of Buenos Aires Urban Strategies and at the same time she was Director of Community Interactions for Foreign Relations and Co-operational Projects.
Since starting out with a humanistic, theosophical and sensualist vision, Laura P. Spinadel has moved towards a holistic and ecological position, that seeks to put maximum emphasis on the health of open and closed spaces, as well as on the requirements and principles of bio-construction.
[17] Spinadel was honored with the Granting Promotion XL Innovation aws Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft of the Creative Industries (2017),[18] the Impact Innovation funding from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG (2020) [19] and the Granting aws technology internationalization with URBAN MENUS India market study for a Smart Area Development solution (2021) [20] At the XV International Biennial of Architecture of Buenos Aires BA 15, Spinadel won the BA 15 Award and also the Contest of the International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA 2015 in Urbanism.