Dr Federico Wulff

EU PhD

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Research interests

1. Architectural and Urban Design in Crisis Times 

2. Migration, Interculturality and Contemporary Architecture and Urban Design: Inter-Cultural Nodes (ICN)

3. Contemporary Architecture Design and Critical Heritage Studies

4. Design Research Methods

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Teaching profile

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Dr. Federico Wulff Barreiro is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design at the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), a European-funded senior researcher and an award-winning practitioner in contemporary architectural design and heritage preservation.

He holds both the Europa Nostra Grand Prix 2019 and the Europa Nostra 2019 awards for the Restoration of the 14^thC. palatine mosque of the Oratory of the Partal Palace in the Alhambra of Granada (Spain). The Europa Nostra Grand Prix, promoted by the European Commission, is the most prestigious award in architectural heritage at European Level. The Alhambra UNESCO Worldwide Heritage site is the most prestigous and visited heritage site of Spain.

Dr. Federico Wulff's practice W+G Architects holds 10 first prizes and 1 mention awards in international architectural and urban design competitions in Spain, Chile and Morocco.

He has received the Rome Prize in Architecture of the Royal Spanish Academy of Rome (RAER).

He has co-authored 5 Books, 9 chapters of books and 30 articles in International Architecture and Urban Design top-ranked peer-reviewed journals such as Urban Design International (UK), Metalocus (Spain), Agathon (Italy), Urban Design and Planning (UK), Built Heritage (China), Paisea (Spain), C3 (Korea), L’Architecture du Maroc (Morocco) and Arquitectura Ibérica (Portugal), amongst others.

His Design, Research and Teaching work has been exhibited in 21 International Exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Chile, Italy, Morocco and Brazil. His EMUVE (Euro-Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) European research has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Bienalle 2016.

He is the Course Director of the Masters of Architecture Design (MA AD) at the WSA.

His practice W+G Architects was founded in 2007 by himself and Melina Guirnaldos. The aim of W+G Architects has been to develop design and strategic projects in five design research fields: 1. Post-crisis reactivation strategies at architectural and urban scales / 2. Contemporary approaches to heritage preservation and recycling / 3. Landscape recovery interventions in cooperation projects in developing countries / 4. Socially-Inclusive and Intercultural Public Spaces / 5. Contemporary domestic spaces and micro-architecture.

Our conceptual research has informed the exploration of new design methodologies for addressing contemporary challenges. In addition, our design processes have aimed to be defined as research themselves, with a further theorised within a rich and creative dialectic relation between theory, practice, users and context. This complex iteractive process constitutes the essential framework of our practice and academic research. Thus, our conceptual and practice-based research has become highly adaptive to very different geographical, conceptual and socio-economic contexts, such as our research on reactivation strategies for crisis contexts in Western Europe, our cooperation projects in Africa, the inclusive and intercultural public spaces in Europe and our prevervation projects on medieval arabic heritage sites. Finally, I would like to highlight the urban regeneration asterplan of Bulnes Avenue urban district of Santiago de Chile (Chile), awarded with the Special Mention of the jury on an International Competition promoted by the Government of Chile.

Among the projects of urban landscape reactivation we would highlight the public spaces Eras and Forum (Spain), both selected at the VI European Biennial of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona (Spain) and at the Biennale of Architecture of Sao Paolo (Brazil).

The Landscape Intervention and Restoration of the 17^thC. Palace of the Emperor Susenyos and the Jesuit Cathedral of Ethiopia, funded by the Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECID) and the Landscape recovery of the Caves of Hercules site, in Tangiers (Morocco) funded by the European Union.

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A. Academic and Professional Awards

Europa Nostra Grand Prix (2019)

Europa Nostra award (2019)

Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship 2013. EMUVE Project. European Commission EU (2013).

Rome Prize in Architecture. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy (2007)

Special Mention, 16^th Awards of Urbanism and Architecture. Madrid City Council (Spain). (2001).

B. International Awards in Architecture Design and Urban Design Competitions

• Honorific Mention, International urban prize for the new Master Plan of Government Area - Bulnes Boulevard.                  Santiago de Chile, Chile (2013)
• 1^st Prize awarded, Landscape Recovery around the Caves of Hercules, Tangiers (Morocco). European Union (2007)
• 1^st Prize awarded, Eras de Cristo public space. Granada City Council. Spain (2005)                                                    Selected Project at the VI European Landscape Biennale, Barcelona (2010).
• 1^st Prize awarded, 14 Social Housing in Lubrin (Almería, Spain). Andalucía Regional Government, 2005
• 1^st Prize awarded, 8 Contemporary social housing within the 16^thC. Historic City Center of Baeza (Jaén, Spain). Andalucía Regional Government (2004)
• 1^st Prize awarded, 16^thC. San Jeronimo renaissance Monastery Public Space and Car Park. Granada City Council, Spain (2001).
• 1^st Prize awarded, Public Space and Car Park, Arabial st. Granada City Council, Spain. (2001)
• 1^st Prize awarded, The White Box Youth Center. San Sebastián de los Reyes City Council, Madrid, Spain. (2000).
• 1^st Prize awarded, Institutional Wine Cellar for La Rioja Regional Government. Logroño, Spain. (2000)
• 1^st Prize awarded, Recycling of the former South Central Coach Station of Madrid into the Arganzuela District Civic Center (1998).                                                                                                                                                        Programme: Sports Center, 2 Swimming pools, Cultural Center, Elderly Center, Public Spaces. (25.000 sqm. / 6M€) Selected Project, 2008 Madrid Architectural Week. Cultural Foundation of the Architects Institute of Madrid (FUCOAM).    Special Mention, 16^th Awards of Urbanism and Architecture, Madrid City Council, Spain (2001)

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• Member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
• Member of Hispania Nostra

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• 2015-present: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
• 2013-2015: Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (IEF) Researcher, Cardiff University
• 2012: Visiting Lecturer, Architectural Association (AA)
• 2004-2013: Lecturer, School of Architecture of Granada (ETSAG), University of Granada (UGR), Spain.
• 2011: Arquímedes National Doctoral Program Reviewer. Ministry of Education of Spain.

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• Editorial Board Member of Agathon Journal (Italy). www.agathon.it. 2019.
• Peer reviewer, Journal of International Heritage, Springer (UK). 2020.
• Peer reviewer, Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ). Cambridge University Press (UK). 2015.
• Peer reviewer, Urban Design International (UDI) Journal. Palgrave (UK). 2018-2019.
• Peer reviewer, International Planning Studies Journal. (UK). March- April 2019.
• Co-Supervisor of European Doctoral Theses (Assessor for Doctor Europaeus Mention)
  • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politecnica Madrid (Spain). Nov.2015.(Co-supervisors: Prof. Manuel Gausa Navarro (Genova, Italy), Prof. Federico Soriano (ETSAM Madrid)
  • Facolta di Architettura, Universita di Palermo (Italy). December 2014. (Co-supervisor: Prof. Renzo Lecardane)