Nami Gradolí Giner

Nami Gradolí Giner is an architect and researcher based between Valencia and Barcelona. Her work explores how inherited housing typologies—particularly postwar and mass housing—respond to contemporary vulnerabilities such as aging, inaccessibility, and climate risk. She approaches architecture as a spatial and political practice, combining visual ethnography, technical analysis, and participatory formats to document lived experience and open design debates grounded in everyday life. She frequently works with film as a research tool and as a means to activate collective conversations around housing.

She co-directed the award-winning project 67 Steps (2022–2023), which addressed accessibility and co-ownership in walk-up buildings in Barcelona, and was nominated for the EUmies Young Talent Architecture Award. Building on this work, she is currently developing a documentary film supported by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and La Bonne, co-directed with Adriana Núñez Alfaro.

Her recent project mi/SHENEBA (2025) documents informal housing extensions in Tbilisi, Georgia, developed during a Culture Moves Europe residency and presented through a collective screening and public talk at Mutant Radio. She has also contributed to workshops and exhibitions addressing housing and accessibility in the aftermath of the 2024 Dana floods, in collaboration with UPC and UPV.

Nami currently collaborates as an architect at Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes and is about to begin her PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, focusing on collective strategies for adapting housing to accessibility challenges and other vulnerabilities in Southern Europe. Through film and fieldwork, she seeks to bridge architectural research, storytelling and public engagement—rethinking renovation from the inside out.