Magda Bardina

Director of  Adaptive Conservation & Preservation

Magda Bardina Garcia achieved her masters in architecture in 1988 with a significant supplementary education from the Preservation Institute of the Caribbean University of Florida Interamerican University, the University of Haiti and Menéndez Pelayo University in Seville.  In 1988, Bardina Garcia became a consultant for the Puerto Rico Culture Institute for the Southern Region Historic District that she would later become Director of. In 1992 the Architect became the Director of the Historic Center of Ponce throughout “Ponce en Marcha.” During which she complemented her education with studies in management of historic districts in Colombia and Cities at Risk, Heritage and Tourism in Mexico as well as giving lectures in ICOMOS Morelia, Mexico on the Revitalization of the Historic Center of Ponce.

In 2001 Bardina Garcia established the firm Atelier 66 csp and created a dedicated and creative work group and have been a part of the of the last stages of the preservationist/renewal process of “Ley 212”. The firm’s impact has had an immediate and beneficial effect in the town’s recent private and governmental development.