1st Biennal 1999

Lecturer 1 and 2

Born in Barcelona, 1950. Architect and director of the ETSAB. Main works: Olympic Area of Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona; the surroundings of the Alhambra, Granada; planning of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Cordoba Zoological Park; La Bastida Centre, Santa Coloma de Gramenet; Costa Azahar Airport, Castellón. FAD Award (1992), City of Barcelona Award (1985 and 1990) and Ville de Paris Medal (1994).

Lecturer 1 and 2

Born in Huesca, 1950. He is an architect and has been a lecturer at the ETSAB since 1975. He has been director of Urban Projects at Barcelona City Council (1981-1987), technical director of the Municipal Institute of Urban Development (1988-7993) and director of Barcelona Regional (1994-1999). Since 1999 he has been Head Architect of Barcelona City Council. He has been awarded the Barcelona 92 Honour Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Lecturer 1 and 2

Barcelona (1957-2010). She studied Landscape Architecture at Berkeley, Georgetown and Edinburgh. She founded the practice Arquitectura del Paisatge in 1983, the same year she was appointed lecturer on the master's degree course in Landscape Architecture at the UPC. Main works: Square in Girona; gardens of L'Illa Diagonal, Barcelona; landscaping of the Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona; Parque Sar, Santiago de Compostela.

Lecturer 1 and 3

Between 1981 and 1988 she worked for Barcelona City Council, where she carried out projects for public spaces such as Joan Mirò Park, the Fossar de la Pedrera, and the Park and El Sot del Migdia. She is internationally known for her projects around Europe: the remodelling of Patrick Street and Grand Parade in the city of Cork (Ireland, 7999), and the historic centres of 's-Hertogenbosch (Holland, 1993-1998) and Dublin (Ireland, 2002). ln Spain she has carried out projects such as the Joan Mirò Library, Zafra Park in Huelva (1994), Salamanca Forum Shopping Centre (1999), the Audiovisual Campus in Poble Nou (2000) and the bathing area of the Forum 2004. She has been a lecturer at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) since 1994.

Lecturer 1 and 5

Barcelona 1939-2012. Architect and urban planner, specifi cally dedicated to the subject of urban design. Student of Ludovico Quaroni in Rome and Josep Lluis Sert at Harvard. Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. Founder and director of the Urban Planning Laboratory of Barcelona since 1968, a group researching urban morphology. He has given courses in urban design at universities in Cambridge (UK), New York, Santiago (Chile), Lisbon, Harvard, Lovaina, Milan, Naples, Caracas, Coimbra, Paris, Nanjing, Shanghai, Melbourne, Copenhagen, etc… Director of the Master’s courses entitled “Planning the periphery” (1991- 95). Director of the School of Architecture of Barcelona from 1994 to 1998. Fellow of the University of Cambridge, UK (1984). Member of the French Academy of Architecture (2003). Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lovaina (2004).