Francisco González de Canales is co-director of the award-winning office Canales & Lombardero. He studied architecture at ETSA Seville, ETSA Barcelona, and Harvard University, and has worked for Foster + Partners and Rafael Moneo. An active architectural critic, he has lectured in England, Mexico, Spain, and the US and collaborated on different architectural publications. Between 2008 and 2012 he was AACP (curatorial practices/cultural products) coordinator at the Architectural Association, where he has taught since 2008 and currently serves as Inter 8 unit master. He is also Professor of Architectural Composition at the University of Seville. Among his recent publications are First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s (AA Books, 2009), with Brett Steele, Experiments with life itself (Actar, 2012), based on his PhD research on the radical domestic self-experimentations of the 1940s and 1950s, Rafael Moneo: A Theory through Practicing. Archive Materials (1961–2013) (Barrie Foundation, 2013), and Rafael Moneo: Building, Teaching, Writing (Yale University Press, 2015), with Nicholas Ray.