Maria Esnaola Cano is an architectural designer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is a registered architect in Spain and a Fulbright Scholar holding a Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Design and a Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Research from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Through her diverse affiliations with Los Angeles city institutions and as a member of the board of directors of the LAForum for Architecture and Urban Design, she seeks to engage in current debates over the future of urban landscapes by studying the city as a physical phenomenon and as a cultural artifact. Esnaola Cano is a professor at the USC School of Architecture and is currently a visiting professor at ETH Zurich.