Marie Saldaña is an architectural historian and designer. Her research investigates the landscapes, buildings, and families of Spanish and Mexican ranching in the Southwest. Her creative work is centered on practices of drawing as a means of understanding and interpreting historical spaces.
She has published work on the procedural modeling of ancient cities and 3D reconstruction of the historical built environment, and has taught digital history and spatial humanities at Stanford University, Rice University, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.