IN-PERSON Barcelona Livable Cities. Section A

Dr Graham Cairns, UK, Director, AMPS. He has taught at Universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, South Africa and Gambia. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and ran a performing arts company, Hybrid Artworks, with a specialism in video installation and performance art. The author and editor of several books and multiple articles on architecture, film, advertising and socio-politics, he co-founded AMPS in 2011 and is Executive Editor of the AMPS journal ISSN 2050-9006.

Leandro Madrazo, earned his degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC) and completed a Master’s in Architecture at UCLA and Harvard University as a Fulbright scholar. He obtained a PhD from ETH Zürich, where he also taught and conducted research from 1990 to 1999. Since 1999, he has been teaching and researching at La Salle School of Architecture, Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona. His research focuses on sustainable and affordable housing, urban regeneration, digital tools in architecture, and architectural education.  He has coordinated several European projects on sustainable housing and urban development, including  A-Place, RE-DWELL, TIMEPAC, OIKONET , OIKODOMOS , and SEMANCO, as well as nationally funded research such as PROHABIT