Prof. Luis Fernández-Galiano, Ph.D., is an architect, professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica and editor of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva. A member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he has been Cullinan Professor at Rice, Franke Fellow at Yale, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center and a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute. President of the jury in the 9th Venice and the XV Chile architecture biennials, expert and juror of the Mies Award, he has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado in Madrid and Extreme Eurasia in Tokyo. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna (1989), Fire and Memory (MIT Press, 1991), Spain Builds (with MoMA, 2005) and Atlas, Global Architecture circa 2000 (2007)