Beatriz Ramo (Spain, 1979) is a Spanish architect and urban designer living in the Netherlands. She is a recognised critical voice in the field of collective housing, challenging the increasing standardisation of housing production. Her research and built work advocate adaptable housing that responds 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 2024 ARVHA National French Prize for Women in Architecture. 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. Beatriz studied at the Technical School of Architecture in Valencia, Spain, and at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She worked for Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) before founding her office, STAR strategies + architecture, in Rotterdam in 2006. STAR has led a diverse range of projects, always with a strong commitment to collective housing — a field she considers the most profound and socially impactful work an architect can undertake. Since its creation, affordable, adaptable, and evolutionary housing has been the office’s main field of research and experimentation. The office has explored these topics in depth through competitions, commissions, texts, and self-initiated and funded research, from theory to 1:1 experimentation, culminating in START-Ivry, a 288-dwelling experimental collective housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, Greater Paris, based on STAR’s almost ten-year housing research and aimed at meaningfully improving housing conditions. STAR’s work has received several distinctions, including awards granted by Architizer, Archello, FRAME, Azure Awards, Architectenweb, and MIX Interiors, and has been widely published in major international media, including The New York Times, El País, Corriere della Sera, and leading architecture magazines such as Arquitectura Viva, Casabella, AA Files, Arch+, Le Moniteur, Domus, Abitare, and Deutsche Bauzeitung. Since 2007, Beatriz Ramo has been a guest professor at various architecture, urbanism, and interior design institutions in the Netherlands and has also been invited as a guest critic at several European architecture schools, including the Berlage Institute, AHO in Oslo, Chalmers School in Gothenburg, and the ACU – Ateliers de Création Urbaine in Paris. Beatriz Ramo has lectured internationally on architecture in general and the work of STAR in particular at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, the National Art Gallery in Vilnius, the SCA in Buenos Aires, ENSA Versailles, Architecture Club in Kiev, Chalmers School in Gothenburg, Elisava School in Barcelona, the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.