Luis Fernández-Galiano is an architect, Chair Professor of Projects at the ETSAM (School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), and editor of the magazine AV/Arquitectura Viva. A member of Spain’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he is an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has been Cullinan Professor at Rice, Franke Fellow at Yale, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard, and the Berlage Institute. He has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado, Extreme Eurasia, Spain mon amour, and The Architect is Present. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna (Hermann Blume, 1990), Fire and Memory (MIT Press, 2000), Spain Builds (Arquitectura Viva, 2006), and Atlas: Architectures of the 21st Century (Fundación BBVA, 2007-2012), a series of four volumes.