Ignasi Pérez Arnal

Barcelona

Ignasi Pérez Arnal

Barcelona

Barcelona (Spain), 1965. MArch, Author of "Ecoproductos para la Arquitectura y el Diseño" and being responsible of more than 50 publications about sustainability and architecture, he is leading the massive change of the building sector into a conscious and responsible rôle. Founder of Actar publishing company, former Head of Sustainable Area at EsArq School of Architecture (UIC) and Director of Continued Education at ELISAVA-UPF. He pioneered the change of Technical Architecture Spanish studies into Building Engineering based on three vectors: globalization, sustainability and international cooperation, while creating the first academical subject about Accessibility in Spain. Creator of the first Erasmus Mundus Programme on Sustainable Emergency Architecture in Europe, he is visiting professor in Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) and lecturer in the last three years in Vietnamese-German University in Ho Chi Min City (Vietnam), Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras, PR), Ordem dos Arquitectos (Porto and Lisbon, Portugal), Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia)...

  • Education
    • PhD Candidate UPF, MSc MODiC UPF, Bc Arch. UPC