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Dr Federico Wulff
EU PhD (Doctor Europaeus) Architect
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Federico Wulff
Reader (Associate Professor) in Architectural Design. MA AD Course Director. MArch BE Year 1 Leader
Academic Lead
Doctoral Supervisor
Overview
Responsibilities
Federico is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Architecture Design and Urban Design at the WSA, a European researcher, and an award-winning practitioner. He is also the Course Director of the Masters of Architecture Design (MA AD) and the new MArch BE Year 1 Lead. Federico graduated from the ETSAM (Madrid, Spain) in 1998. In 2007/2008, he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture by the Royal Spanish Academy of Rome. He owns a European PhD (Doctor Europaeus), which he completed during his year in Rome at Roma Tre University (Italy) and the ETSAM School of Architecture of Madrid (Spain), and was supervised at Paris-Belleville University (France). He was recently awarded the Europa Nostra Grand Prix 2019 and the Europa Nostra 2019, the most prestigious European award in Heritage preservation at European level, for his restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace, a 14th-century mosque within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Alhambra (Granada, Spain).
His work in the UK began in 2012 when he was a Visiting Teacher at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. Then, in March 2013, he joined the WSA as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) Postdoctoral Senior Researcher, leading the EMUVE European Project. His European research project EMUVE (Euro-Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) was funded by the European Commission with 220,000 Euros. EMUVE focused on exploring innovative design methodologies for reactivating urban landscapes in crisis, from the 2008 Great Recession to the migrant and refugee crisis in 2015.
His practice, W+G Architects, co-led with Dr Melina Guirnaldos, has been awarded 10 first prizes in International Architecture competitions. His projects have addressed a wide range of issues, from public spaces (Eras, Forum), heritage preservation (Restoration of a 14th-century mosque in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Alhambra, Spain, in partnership with Dr Melina Guirnaldos) to cooperation projects in developing countries, such as the Landscape intervention and heritage preservation of the Palace of the Emperor Susenyos and the Jesuit Cathedral of Ethiopia, funded by the Spanish Cooperation and Development Agency (AECID) and co-authored with Dr Melina Guirnaldos, and the EU-funded landscape regeneration of the Caves of Hercules in Tangiers (Morocco).
He is currently developing design research consultancies in heritage preservation, contemporary architectural design and urban design for adaptive reuse of heritage buildings and public spaces within the Walled City of Lahore —the historic city centre of the capital of Pakistani Punjab— in partnership with Dr Mamuna Iqbal (University of Engineering and Technology of Lahore), on behalf of the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) public agency.
Publication
2026
- Chen, Y. et al. 2026. Developing a design tool for age-friendly gated communities in China: Integrating knowledge bases to improve lived experiences for older women. In: Ting, D. S. and Stagner, J. A. eds. Age-Friendly Engineering for the Built Environment. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering Woodhead Publishing. , pp.159-198. (10.1016/b978-0-443-43874-5.00007-0)
- Wulff, F. and Iqbal, M. 2026. Design research constellations: a renewed framework for pedagogic innovation in architecture. International Journal of Architectural Research (ArchNet-IJAR) (10.1108/ARCH-12-2025-0616)
- Wulff, F. and Javed Shah, S. 2026. Intercultural threshold urbanism (ITU): A relational ecology for dialogical reciprocity across Latitudes. Presented at: LATITUDES. Situated reflections on architectural research Umea University (Sweden) 10-13 June 2026. Proceedings of EURAU26: LATITUDES – Situated reflections on architectural research. Vol. I.Umeå University (Sweden): Press Umeå University. , pp.476-482.
2025
- Chen, Y. et al. 2025. Incorporating designers’ ideas in developing a collaborative prototype for supporting age-friendly kitchen co-design in Chinese gated communities. The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design 28 (5), pp.1060-1082. (10.1080/14606925.2025.2535849)
- Messabih, H. and Wulff, F. 2025. Privacy and gendered domestic spaces in the 21st century: Mapping sociocultural continuity in the community led-housing project of Ksar Tafilelt, Algeria. ARCHive 9 (2), pp.12-24. (10.21625/archive-sr.v9i2.1174)
- Chen, Y. et al. 2025. Indoor comfort domains and well-being of older adults in residential settings: A scoping review. Building and Environment 267 (Part A) 112268. (10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.112268)
2023
- Daradkeh, L. and Wulff, F. 2023. Axonometric drawings as exploratory design research tools: A case study of the social production of space of the streets in the Baqaa Refugee Camp, Jordan. Presented at: Association of Architectural Educators 7th international conference Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 12-15 July 2023. Published in: McVicar, M. ed. Productive-disruptive: Spaces of exploration in-between architectural pedagogy and practice. Proceedings AAE 2023. Cardiff University: Cardiff University. , pp.148-159.
- Wulff, F. and Iqbal, M. 2023. Architectural design-research: a path towards an innovative transdisciplinary pedagogy. Presented at: AMPS International Conference 2022 Online 20-22 April 2022. Published in: Adil, Z. ed. A Focus on Pedagogy. Vol. 28.2. AMPS. , pp.157-166.
2022
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2022. The multi-scalar production of intercultural urban landscapes. Inter-cultural nodes as urban and social re-activators: the case of Ballarò, Palermo. In: McVicar, M. , Kite, S. and Drożyński, C. eds. Generosity and Architecture. London: Routledge. , pp.226-237. (10.4324/9781003211815-25)
2021
- Wulff, F. 2021. The restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace in the Alhambra of Granada, Grand Prix Europa Nostra 2019. Built Heritage 5 7. (10.1186/s43238-021-00026-w)
2020
- Wulff Barreiro, F. and Brito Gonzalez, O. 2020. The production of intercultural urban landscapes, a multi‑scalar approach: the case of Ballarò, Palermo. URBAN DESIGN International 25 (3), pp.250-265. (10.1057/s41289-020-00126-6)
- Wulff, F. , Lecardane, R. and Lascala, P. 2020. Designing intercultural space. A multi-scalar approach in the Albergheria neighbourhood in Palermo. Agathón 7 (10.19229/2464-9309/792020)
- Chen, Y. , Davidova, M. and Wulff, F. 2020. Gigamapping as a toolkit for city analysis: a design-led research. Presented at: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 9 (RSD9 2020) Ahmedabad, India 9-18 October 2020. Published in: Jones, P. ed. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium. Ahmedabad: Systemic Design Association.
- Wulff, F. 2020. The restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace and the House of Astasio de Bracamonte in the Alhambra of Granada, Spain. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2018
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2018. Reframing spatial practices in processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities in the reactivation of historic urban landscapes.. Presented at: S.ARCH: The 5th International Conference on Architecture & Built Environment Venice, Italy 22-24 May 2018.
- Wulff, F. 2018. Reframing the reactivation of historic urban landscapes with processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities. Presented at: Heritage Across Borders, Association of Critical Heritage Studies 4th Biennial Conference 2018 (ACHS 2018). Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 1-6th September 2018. Heritage Accross Borders. Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 4th Biennial Conference. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University. , pp.222-222.
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2018. Reframing spatial practices in processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities in the reactivation of historic urban landscapes. Presented at: Generosity Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 27-29 June 2018. Published in: McVicar, M. ed. Generosity Conference. Cardiff, UK: Cardiff University Press. , pp.75-75.
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2018. “Huellas: Grutas de Hércules, Tánger (Marruecos) / Interacciones en cooperación: Misiones Jesuitas en el Lago Tana (Etiopia). Proyecto Europeo EMUVE” [Imprints: Hercules’ Caves, Tangier (Morocco) / Interactions in Cooperation: Jesuit Missions around Lake Tana (Ethiopia). European Project EMUVE], in Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. In: Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. [Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial]. Granada University Press. , pp.441-465.
2017
- Wulff, F. and Akiyode, A. 2017. Interrogating urban refugees spatialities – the case of Palermo. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual conference 2017 Royal Geographical Society, London, UK 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2017.
2015
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2015. Urban activation in a post-crisis Euro-Mediterranean scenario. Urban Design and Planning 168 (DP6), pp.288-292. (10.1680/jurdp.15.00019)
- Wulff, F. 2015. EMUVE European Research Project. Barcelona Case: Post-crisis collaborative design processes and community self-management strategies for urban regeneration. Presented at: Sustainable City 2015: 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability Medellin, Colombia 1 - 3 September 2015. Conference Proceedings of SUSTAINABLE CITY 2015 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. Wessex University
- Wulff, F. and Hodebert, L. 2015. Euro‐Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology (EMUVE): Nouvelles stratégies de régénération territoriale pour l’Etang de Berre (Marseille). I Quaderni di Careggi. - UNISCAPE En-Route II
2014
- Davis, J. , Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2014. Heritage, culture and regeneration: the role of coal in the future of Cardiff Bay. Presented at: Heritage 2014: 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Guimarães, Portugal July 22-25, 2014. Heritage 2014 – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Vol. 1.Green Lines Institute. , pp.521-529.
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2014. Resident-led iniciativas for a post-recession European landscape. PAISEA (28), pp.102-107.
2013
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2013. Architectural education from socio-economic perspective in environmental design. Presented at: Architectural Education and the Reality of the Ideal. Environmental Design for Innovation in the Postcrisis World. Conference Proceedings of ENHSA 2013, European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013. Naples, Italy 2-4 Oct. 2013. Published in: Voyatzaki, M. ed. Architectural Education and the Reality of the Ideal. Environmental Design for Innovation in the Postcrisis World. Conference Proceedings of ENHSA 2013, European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013.. Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013.: ENHSA European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture. , pp.528-540.
2012
- Wulff, F. 2012. Forum space of Granada, Spain. In: Lee, U. ed. C3 landscape monographs. DLLE Architectural Landscape. Filling Up, Delimiting. Vol. 4, [Forum Space of Granada, Spain]. Seoul, South Korea: C3 Publishing Co.. , pp.180-195.
- Wulff, F. 2012. Public Space for Negocios Event. In: Dlle 4 - Filling Up. Delimiting. William Stout Architecture. , pp.180-195.
Articles
- Wulff, F. and Iqbal, M. 2026. Design research constellations: a renewed framework for pedagogic innovation in architecture. International Journal of Architectural Research (ArchNet-IJAR) (10.1108/ARCH-12-2025-0616)
- Chen, Y. et al. 2025. Incorporating designers’ ideas in developing a collaborative prototype for supporting age-friendly kitchen co-design in Chinese gated communities. The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design 28 (5), pp.1060-1082. (10.1080/14606925.2025.2535849)
- Messabih, H. and Wulff, F. 2025. Privacy and gendered domestic spaces in the 21st century: Mapping sociocultural continuity in the community led-housing project of Ksar Tafilelt, Algeria. ARCHive 9 (2), pp.12-24. (10.21625/archive-sr.v9i2.1174)
- Chen, Y. et al. 2025. Indoor comfort domains and well-being of older adults in residential settings: A scoping review. Building and Environment 267 (Part A) 112268. (10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.112268)
- Wulff, F. 2021. The restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace in the Alhambra of Granada, Grand Prix Europa Nostra 2019. Built Heritage 5 7. (10.1186/s43238-021-00026-w)
- Wulff Barreiro, F. and Brito Gonzalez, O. 2020. The production of intercultural urban landscapes, a multi‑scalar approach: the case of Ballarò, Palermo. URBAN DESIGN International 25 (3), pp.250-265. (10.1057/s41289-020-00126-6)
- Wulff, F. , Lecardane, R. and Lascala, P. 2020. Designing intercultural space. A multi-scalar approach in the Albergheria neighbourhood in Palermo. Agathón 7 (10.19229/2464-9309/792020)
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2015. Urban activation in a post-crisis Euro-Mediterranean scenario. Urban Design and Planning 168 (DP6), pp.288-292. (10.1680/jurdp.15.00019)
- Wulff, F. and Hodebert, L. 2015. Euro‐Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology (EMUVE): Nouvelles stratégies de régénération territoriale pour l’Etang de Berre (Marseille). I Quaderni di Careggi. - UNISCAPE En-Route II
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2014. Resident-led iniciativas for a post-recession European landscape. PAISEA (28), pp.102-107.
Book sections
- Chen, Y. et al. 2026. Developing a design tool for age-friendly gated communities in China: Integrating knowledge bases to improve lived experiences for older women. In: Ting, D. S. and Stagner, J. A. eds. Age-Friendly Engineering for the Built Environment. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering Woodhead Publishing. , pp.159-198. (10.1016/b978-0-443-43874-5.00007-0)
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2022. The multi-scalar production of intercultural urban landscapes. Inter-cultural nodes as urban and social re-activators: the case of Ballarò, Palermo. In: McVicar, M. , Kite, S. and Drożyński, C. eds. Generosity and Architecture. London: Routledge. , pp.226-237. (10.4324/9781003211815-25)
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2018. “Huellas: Grutas de Hércules, Tánger (Marruecos) / Interacciones en cooperación: Misiones Jesuitas en el Lago Tana (Etiopia). Proyecto Europeo EMUVE” [Imprints: Hercules’ Caves, Tangier (Morocco) / Interactions in Cooperation: Jesuit Missions around Lake Tana (Ethiopia). European Project EMUVE], in Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. In: Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial [Values and Identity of the Cultural Landscapes: Instruments for the knowledge and dissemination of a new heritage category]. [Valores e Identidad de los Paisajes Culturales: Instrumentos para el conocimiento y difusión de una nueva categoría Patrimonial]. Granada University Press. , pp.441-465.
- Wulff, F. 2012. Forum space of Granada, Spain. In: Lee, U. ed. C3 landscape monographs. DLLE Architectural Landscape. Filling Up, Delimiting. Vol. 4, [Forum Space of Granada, Spain]. Seoul, South Korea: C3 Publishing Co.. , pp.180-195.
- Wulff, F. 2012. Public Space for Negocios Event. In: Dlle 4 - Filling Up. Delimiting. William Stout Architecture. , pp.180-195.
Conferences
- Wulff, F. and Javed Shah, S. 2026. Intercultural threshold urbanism (ITU): A relational ecology for dialogical reciprocity across Latitudes. Presented at: LATITUDES. Situated reflections on architectural research Umea University (Sweden) 10-13 June 2026. Proceedings of EURAU26: LATITUDES – Situated reflections on architectural research. Vol. I.Umeå University (Sweden): Press Umeå University. , pp.476-482.
- Daradkeh, L. and Wulff, F. 2023. Axonometric drawings as exploratory design research tools: A case study of the social production of space of the streets in the Baqaa Refugee Camp, Jordan. Presented at: Association of Architectural Educators 7th international conference Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 12-15 July 2023. Published in: McVicar, M. ed. Productive-disruptive: Spaces of exploration in-between architectural pedagogy and practice. Proceedings AAE 2023. Cardiff University: Cardiff University. , pp.148-159.
- Wulff, F. and Iqbal, M. 2023. Architectural design-research: a path towards an innovative transdisciplinary pedagogy. Presented at: AMPS International Conference 2022 Online 20-22 April 2022. Published in: Adil, Z. ed. A Focus on Pedagogy. Vol. 28.2. AMPS. , pp.157-166.
- Chen, Y. , Davidova, M. and Wulff, F. 2020. Gigamapping as a toolkit for city analysis: a design-led research. Presented at: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 9 (RSD9 2020) Ahmedabad, India 9-18 October 2020. Published in: Jones, P. ed. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium. Ahmedabad: Systemic Design Association.
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2018. Reframing spatial practices in processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities in the reactivation of historic urban landscapes.. Presented at: S.ARCH: The 5th International Conference on Architecture & Built Environment Venice, Italy 22-24 May 2018.
- Wulff, F. 2018. Reframing the reactivation of historic urban landscapes with processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities. Presented at: Heritage Across Borders, Association of Critical Heritage Studies 4th Biennial Conference 2018 (ACHS 2018). Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 1-6th September 2018. Heritage Accross Borders. Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 4th Biennial Conference. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University. , pp.222-222.
- Wulff, F. and Brito, O. 2018. Reframing spatial practices in processes of social inclusion of migrants and local communities in the reactivation of historic urban landscapes. Presented at: Generosity Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 27-29 June 2018. Published in: McVicar, M. ed. Generosity Conference. Cardiff, UK: Cardiff University Press. , pp.75-75.
- Wulff, F. and Akiyode, A. 2017. Interrogating urban refugees spatialities – the case of Palermo. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual conference 2017 Royal Geographical Society, London, UK 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2017.
- Wulff, F. 2015. EMUVE European Research Project. Barcelona Case: Post-crisis collaborative design processes and community self-management strategies for urban regeneration. Presented at: Sustainable City 2015: 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability Medellin, Colombia 1 - 3 September 2015. Conference Proceedings of SUSTAINABLE CITY 2015 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. Wessex University
- Davis, J. , Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos Diaz, F. M. 2014. Heritage, culture and regeneration: the role of coal in the future of Cardiff Bay. Presented at: Heritage 2014: 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Guimarães, Portugal July 22-25, 2014. Heritage 2014 – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Vol. 1.Green Lines Institute. , pp.521-529.
- Wulff, F. and Guirnaldos, M. 2013. Architectural education from socio-economic perspective in environmental design. Presented at: Architectural Education and the Reality of the Ideal. Environmental Design for Innovation in the Postcrisis World. Conference Proceedings of ENHSA 2013, European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013. Naples, Italy 2-4 Oct. 2013. Published in: Voyatzaki, M. ed. Architectural Education and the Reality of the Ideal. Environmental Design for Innovation in the Postcrisis World. Conference Proceedings of ENHSA 2013, European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013.. Napoli 2-4 Oct. 2013.: ENHSA European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture. , pp.528-540.
Monographs
- Wulff, F. 2020. The restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace and the House of Astasio de Bracamonte in the Alhambra of Granada, Spain. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Research
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
Teaching
Teaching profile
Biography
Dr Federico Wulff Barreiro is a Reader 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 14thC. Palatine mosque of the Oratory of the Partal Palace in the Alhambra of Granada (Spain), UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Europa Nostra Grand Prix, promoted by the European Commission (EU), is the most prestigious award in architectural heritage at the European Level. The Alhambra UNESCO Worldwide Heritage Site is a world-renowned heritage site in Spain and one of the most visited worldwide.
Dr Federico Wulff's practice, W+G Architects, has won 10 first prizes and one mention award in international architectural and urban design competitions in Spain, Chile, and Morocco.
He has received the Rome Prize in Architecture from the Royal Spanish Academy of Rome (RAER).
He has co-authored five books, nine chapters of books, and 30 articles in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals in international architecture and urban design, 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 have been exhibited at 21 international exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Chile, Italy, Morocco, and Brazil. His EMUVE (Euro-Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) European research project was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
He is the Course Director of the Masters of Architecture Design (MA AD) at the WSA.
He founded his practice W+G Architects in 2007, together with Dr 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 aim to be defined as research, with further theorisation 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 preservation projects on medieval hispano-Muslim heritage sites. Finally, I would like to highlight the urban regeneration master plan 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 the Biennale of Architecture of Sao Paolo (Brazil).
The most important cooperation projects related to contemporary interventions in heritage contexts and social inclusion are the Landscape Intervention and Restoration of the 17th-century Palace of the Emperor Susenyos and the Jesuit Cathedral of Ethiopia in Danqaz (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 (EU Interreg programme).
Honours and awards
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, 16th 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)
- 1st Prize awarded, Landscape Recovery around the Caves of Hercules, Tangiers (Morocco). European Union (2007)
- 1st Prize awarded, Eras de Cristo public space. Granada City Council. Spain (2005) Selected Project at the VI European Landscape Biennale, Barcelona (2010).
- 1st Prize awarded, 14 Social Housing in Lubrin (Almería, Spain). Andalucía Regional Government, 2005
- 1st Prize awarded, 8 Contemporary social housing within the 16thC. Historic City Center of Baeza (Jaén, Spain). Andalucía Regional Government (2004)
- 1st Prize awarded, 16thC. San Jeronimo renaissance Monastery Public Space and Car Park. Granada City Council, Spain (2001).
- 1 st Prize awarded, Public Space and Car Park, Arabialst . Granada City Council, Spain. (2001)
- 1st Prize awarded, The White Box Youth Center. San Sebastián de los Reyes City Council, Madrid, Spain. (2000).
- 1st Prize awarded, Institutional Wine Cellar for La Rioja Regional Government. Logroño, Spain. (2000)
- 1st 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, 16th Awards of Urbanism and Architecture, Madrid City Council, Spain (2001)
Professional memberships
- Member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
- Member of Hispania Nostra
Academic positions
- 2024-Present: Reader, Cardiff University
- 2015-2024: 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.
Committees and reviewing
- 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)
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Research themes
Specialisms
- design research
- contemporary architecture in heritage contexts
- socially inclusive design
- Inter-Cultural Nodes (ICN)
- urban design and public spaces
