Born in Galați, Romania, Débora Iaroslavschi followed her father to Argentina in 1936 and was one of very few women in the architecture school of the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 1953; she went on to become one of the first Argentine women to qualify as an urban and regional planner. Her early houses — Don Torcuato 1949, Furmann 1951, Rothschild 1954, Pogré 1956 — worked out the modern lesson of open plans, planted flat roofs, ribbon windows and reinforced concrete. From 1958 she built almost continuously on the Atlantic coast with the developer Domingo Fiorentini: the first tall building in Miramar, then the Eiffel, Alsancor and Alsina blocks in Mar del Plata and the Mirador Cabo Corrientes. Late in life she turned to accessibility and architecture for ageing, publishing on Alzheimer's and building design.
