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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.