Puigjaner studied her bachelor, master and doctorate degrees at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB).[2] Firstly, she graduated in 2004. In 2008, she obtained the Master in Advanced Studies with a research named Waldorf-Royal.[3] In 2014, she completed her PhD with a thesis project focused on the Waldorf Astoria's kitchenless apartments during its first six decades.[4]
In 2005 she cofounded architecture office MAIO alongside María Charneco, Alfredo Lérida and Guillermo López.[5]
Between 2011 and 2016, Piugjaner was an editor of the Catalan magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme.
In 2016, she received the Wheelwright Prize with the proposal Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare,[2] an itinerary that began in Senegal, and moved through Singapur, Tailandia, Mexico, Canada, Japan, China, Sweden and Peru.[5] That same year, her Kitchenless City proposal was finalist of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.[6]
In 2023, Piugjaner was appointed as Professor of Architecture and Care at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.[7]
She is currently associate professor of Professional Practice at GSAPP – Columbia University, and has also taught at the Royal College of Art in London and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona.[8]
Her architectural practice challenges traditional notions of domesticity, particularly the concept of the kitchen, and emphasizes the potential for shared spaces in urban housing.[9]
