Evelia Macal

Evelia Macal is a Salvadoran architect trained at José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA) in El Salvador. Her thesis explored the use of adobe for rural eco-touristic development.  She also worked as a researcher on the ground water rarefaction for the Oficina de Planificación del Área Metropolitana de San Salvador [City Planning Service of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, OPAMSS]. In 2001, she graduated as an urbanist at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium with a dissertation on the preservation of the forests around the Salvadoran capital. She has collaborated with the Centre national de coopération au développement [National Center for Development Cooperation, CNCD] and Médecins du Monde [Doctors of the World] two ONGs in Brussels, and occasionally, she leads workshops on architecture and urbanism at UCA. At present, she is the project manager for the cultural buildings of the Ministry of the French community of Belgium. As an architect and as a ceramist, she is interested in small scale production processes and the contemporary social and artistic potential of vernacular construction materials.

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