Born in 1929 in Argentina, Celia Guevara de la Serna was an architect, academic, and activist. She cam paigned for the release of political prisoners and fought to reveal the truth about the fate of those who  disappeared during Jorge Rafael Videla’s dictatorship. After being exiled from Argentina in the 1970s,  she came to Geneva, where she combined her background in architecture with the social sciences, and  studied urban development in developing countries at the Institute, incorporating historical, sociologi cal, and anthropological approaches in her work.