In 2006, she founded STAR strategies + architecture, a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms. The office portfolio includes a prototype to bring cinemas back to the city centers, a Ferris wheel + Railway station, or a study on the elements that shape secondary European cities. STAR has won several prizes in architectural competitions in China, Lebanon, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Spain. Beatriz remains active in research and writings and is currently working on models for sustainable cemeteries and on a series of essays aiming to develop critical assessments of today’s most dangerous clichés and assumptions in architecture. She is academically involved with several schools and institutions in the Netherlands and she has lectured internationally about the work of STAR. Ramo has been contributing/managing editor of MONU magazine on urbanism since 2008. www.st-ar.nl