Peralta was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina in 1941. She studied at the National University of Tucumán and graduated in 1967. She was a director of the architectural journal Trama.[1]
She moved to Ecuador and taught at the Central University of Ecuador in their Architecture faculty. In 1978 the faculty presented a “Comprehensive Workshop, an interdisciplinary proposal” in Guayaquil at the Latin American Congress of Schools and Faculties of Architecture.[2] In the same year she was one of the founders of the Architecture Biennial that takes place in Quito.[3]
In 1994 she was teaching at the Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito.[2] In 2002 she published Quito, cultural heritage of humanity.[4] In 2006 she published "Casas latinoamericanas" (Latin American Houses) which is a guide to recent homes featuring contemporary architecture.[5]
She co-authored a book, with her life partner Rolando Moya Tasquer, about the architecture of Quito, titled Quito: patrimonio cultural de la humanidad.[6] In 2014 the XX Pan-American Architecture Biennial of Quito took place attracting 2,500 people. Peralta was given a diploma and statuette as one of the founders of the Biennial.[3]
In 2024 she and her partner were still running Trama magazine.[7] She says that she feels like a native of Ecuador.[2]
