Cánovas Alcaraz, Andrés

Born in Cartagena, Spain, in 1958.

PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).

He has developed his teaching career at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of Madrid (CSDM), the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Department of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM), of which he is currently Director.

He has taught regularly in the Master’s Programmes in Design at the University of Salamanca, Heritage Conservation at the University of Murcia, Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Housing at Roma Tre University, the Master in Collective Housing (MCH) in Madrid and Zurich, the Tourism Master’s Programme at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), the Master in Advanced Architectural Design (MPAA), and the Master in Advanced Architectural Communication (MACA) in Madrid.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona and has been invited to lecture at more than thirty universities worldwide, including the Architectural Association in London, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Universidad de los Andes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, the Pontifical Catholic University and Central University of Ecuador in Quito, the University of the Republic in Montevideo, the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, FAU-USP and Escola da Cidade in São Paulo, the Universities of Nantes and Montpellier, TU Vienna, the Polytechnic University of Turin, the University of Naples Federico II, Kent State University in Florence, as well as the Schools of Architecture of Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Valladolid, A Coruña, San Sebastián, Seville, Málaga, and Cartagena, in addition to CEU San Pablo University, Francisco de Vitoria University, and Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid.

Since 1987, he has carried out his professional practice together with Atxu Amann and Nicolás Maruri. Their office has won twenty-five first prizes in national and international competitions and has received more than one hundred and fifty nominations and awards for built work, including the Spanish National Heritage Award, the Luis Moreno Mansilla Award, the Santiago Amón Award, the COAM Award, the Madrid City Council Architecture Award, and awards from the Regional Governments of Madrid and Murcia.

His work and writings have been published in more than three hundred national and international books and journals.