BIO 

Vésma Kontere McQuillan is an architect and writer based in Oslo, Norway.

She began her career having to write architectural criticism for the Latvian daily press. She worked as a journalist, columnist, and blogger for the major Latvian-language daily newspaper Diena for ten years, beginning in 1999.

Since 2011, after relocating to Oslo, Vésma has been a professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo. She is the Head of the research group TYP-0.Lab.

Her research from 2015 til 2020 was focused on the collaboration between OMA/AMO and Prada, looking in particular at the fashion shows created by AMO and Prada, and the design process behind these joint productions. The book Fashion Spaces: A Theoretical View, release date 17 december 2020 with Frame Publishers, is a direct outcome of this research.

Since 2022 McQuillan regularly contributes to Frameweb's fashion show architecture coverage. The latest publications on latest fashion weeks in Milan and Paris is here.