Beatriz Blasco Esquivias, professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, is the author of numerous studies on architecture and urban planning in Modern Age Spain. She has received various awards for research and curated several exhibitions, including Filippo Juvarra (Madrid/Turin/Naples, 1994–98), Madrid y los Sitios Reales (Madrid, 2002), and Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza (Madrid, 2003). Among her more important books are Arquitectura y urbanismo en las Ordenanzas de Teodoro Ardemans (1992), ¡Agua va! La higiene urbana en Madrid (1998), Atlas Mundial de la Arquitectura Barroca (2001), and La casa. Evolución del espacio doméstico en España (2006).