Mercedes Daguerre graduated in architecture

at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in

Venice in 1985. She has been a lecturer and

researcher at several European and American

universities, and has various publications

to her name on the history of contemporary

architecture. She contributed to the volumes

Mario Botta. Architetture 1960-1985 ,

Milan 1985 (edited by F. Dal Co),

Vivere l'Architettura / Living Architecture :

The Architecture of Durisch+Nolli , Chicago

2000, to The Dictionary of Art , London 1990

and to the Schweizer Lexikon , Lucerne 1991.

She is the author of Guida all'architettura

del Novecento. Svizzera , Milan 1995-Basel

1997, La costruzione di un mito. Ticinesi

d'Argentina: committenza e architettura

1850-1940 , Mendrisio 1998 and the essay

Cultura y proyecto urbano. La ciudad moderna

(with A. Ballent and G. Silvestri), Buenos

Aires 1993. She is at present a member of

the editorial staff of the magazine Casabella.