Simona Rota (Mäcin, Romania, 1979). With a MA in International Relations, and a BA in Political Sciences in Bucharest and Barcelona, she also studied Photography in Madrid.

Freelance consultant of communication and digital identity for architecture since over 10 years, she has been collaborating with Office for Strategic Spaces, Fernando Menis, Miralles-Tagliabue Arquitectes, the Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Architecture from Tenerife, Es Baluard – Museu Modern i d’Art Contemporani de Mallorca, among others. Before, she worked as a Business Manager at Fernando Menis’ studio while also coordinating the production of several workshops and exhibitions of architecture in collaboration with organizations such as the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, the Architects Association from Madrid – COAM, the Berlin gallery AEDES etc.

While collaborating with Office for Strategic Spaces – OSS (since 2011), she’s got involved with the press and marketing of The Competition, a documentary film, produced by OSS and directed by Angel Borrego Cubero.

Photographer, her most substantial work was the documentation of the Modern Soviet architecture, commissioned by the Museum of Architecture in Vienna and developed between 2010 and 2012 in the former Soviet republics. She is the author of the photography books Instant Village (2020), Missbehave (Vibok Works, 2013) and Ostalgia (Fabulatorio, 2013). The latter won the D&AD In Book Award for books (Design & Art Direction, UK, 2014) and the Award to the Best Photography Book of the Year PHotoEspaña in the national category (Spain, 2014). In addition, the Kursala series, that includes Ostalgia won the Gràffica Prize (Spain, 2014).

Her photographs have been widely published and exhibited at the Museum of Architecture in Munich – TUM; Fotocolectania Barcelona; Kursala of Cádiz; the Architecture Museum of Vienna; Graz Stadtmuseum; Medellin Museum of Modern Art in Colombia; the Art Museum of Sevastopol, Ukraine;  the C d C – Museo del Traje of Madrid etc.