Manuel Gausa Navarro
Architect, PHD
Barcelona, 14-03-1959

1986 Honours Architect, specialised in Projects, Urbanism and History by the Barcelona’s Technical School of Architecture
Member of the writing team of the magazine “Quaderns d’Arquitectura de Barcelona”
1991-2000 Director of the magazine “Quaderns d’Arquitectura I Urbanisme”
1993-95 Member of the Teaching Commission of the Master’s Degree “ under the title of La Gran Escala” (ETSAB-UPC)
1994 Founding Member of Actar Architecture and Actar Editorial, an agency and a company which deals with design, architecture and thinking over contemporary space.
1995-99 Project Lecturer at ETSAB-UPC.
1996-2000 Member of the Comité Científico del XIX Congreso UIA-Barcelona’96.
Director of the Seminar “ARQ-COM-Arquitecture and Comunication” in the framework of the XIX Congreso UIA-Barcelona’96.
Member of the Managing Team (ie Director of Cultural Activities) of ESARQ-UIC. High College of Architecture of the International University of Catalonia
1997 Founding Member of AxE, a company specialized in sustainable design.
1998 Co-director of Metapolis, An Advanced Arquitecture Association
1999 President of Metapolis, a Cultural Association in Barcelona.
2000 -2005 Director of the Post-Graduate Program “Advanced Arquitecture and Digital Cities”. Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya
2003 - President of IAAC’s Scientific Committee. Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya
2003 Member of the Consell Asesor per el Desenvolupament Sostenible (CADS). Generalitat de Catalunya.
2005. PHD in Architecture, by de Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya.Europeann Mention.

He is also the autor of various articles and published works, such as “Housing, new alternative, new systems” and “Singular housing: the private domain”,
“Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture”, “Barcelona Metapolis”, “HiperCatalunya: Research Territories” , “Operative Optimism” and so on.
In 2000 he was honoured with the Médaille de l´Académie d´Architecture de France.

He has also been a guest lecturer and speaker in numerous national and international institutions.