Iñaki Alday Sanz - Curriculum Vitae#

Education:

• Master in Architecture. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Valles (ETSAV). Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona (1992).
  
• PhD dissertation: Catastrophe and Creation. Theme approved in June 2013 PhD Director: Cristina Jover, Architect PhD Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona

Academic position:

Dean of the School of Architecture at Tulane University, and Koch Chair in Architecture since August 2018. Co-Director of the Yamuna River Project

Previous Positions:

• Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia since August 2011. Tenured. Chair of the Department of Architecture of the University of Virginia from August 2011 to July 2016 Director of the Pan-University Yamuna River Project since July 2016
  
• Endowed Visiting Professor at University of Virginia in 2010
  
• Lecturer in the Master “Housing Laboratory of the XXI Century”, UPC (2004-2011)
  
• Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture in ETS of Architecture of Navarra, Pamplona (2005 and 2009) Director of the Landscape Architecture course of the Aragon Architects Association (2004)
  
• Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Master’s Degree at UPC (2003-2004).
  
• Associate Professor Department of Architectural Design in the ETS of Architecture of Vallès, UPC (1998 -2005) Visiting Professor Department of Architectural Design in the ETS of Architecture of Vallès, UPC (1996-1997)
  
• Guest Professor and member of Juries in several architecture schools (UIC Bcn, BAU Bcn, ETSA Bcn, BiArch, ETH Zürich, IIT Chicago, Cornell, Harvard GSD, MIT, Washington University in Saint Louis). Jury member in several honor awards and competitions such as Europan 2023 (President of the Spanish jury).

Academic service:

• Member of the scientific committee of ZARCH Magazine
  
• Co-chair of the ACSA Administrators Conference Uncertainty, New Orleans, November 2019
  
• Member of the council of Places Journal
  
• Member of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) through Tulane School of Architecture. Delivered one of the keynotes in the EAAE annual conference in Prague in 2021.
  
• President of the Spanish jury of Europan 19, in 2023 and keynote in the Vienna conference.
  
• 1 BOE:2015-10-02. Master in Architecture and professional accreditation. See European regulation MECES.
  

Awards:

• European Urban Public Space Prize (2002), the FAD Prize for City and Landscape (2009), two first Prizes of the Architects Association of Aragon Region (2001 and 2005), the AZ Awards (2016 best Landscape Architecture), two times finalist of the Spanish Architecture Biennale (2005 and 2009), and one time finalist of the European Landscape Architecture Prize (Biennale 2008) and of the International Landscape Architecture Prize (Biennale 2014), of the Iber-American Architecture Biennale (2004) and of the FAD Prize (2002). Also, the Water Park has been nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe (2009), and Zaragoza Tramway in 2012 has been awarded as the best Urban Integration by the IAPT and as the 2012 Worldwide Project of the Year.
  
• Alday is Lead Consultant for the World Bank Group, advising governments and World Bank teams as expert in riverfronts, development, urban ecology, public space and water.
  

Lectures:

Iñaki Alday has lectured as solo speaker (mostly) or keynote speaker (the rest) extensively in Spain, Europe, South America and United States. Iñaki Alday has also participated as international guest expert in workshops for the World Bank in Buenos Aires and Quilmes (Argentina), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Manaus and Sao Paulo (Brazil, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Kingston (Jamaica) or Washington DC (USA).

Books and magazines written or edited by Iñaki Alday:

Aprendiendo de todas sus casas (‘Learning from all their houses’). Exhibition and book. Ediciones UPC. Barcelona 1996 ISBN: 84-89636-17-6

About houses of the modern architects designed for themselves. This book is the core of the early scholarship.-

Estadio y paisaje (‘Football Stadium and Landscape’) COA Aragón, Zaragoza, May 2007 ARQ CAT, Ed. COA Catalunya, Barcelona 2008
ISBN: 978-84-96842-35-9 ARQCAT VOL 1 ISBN: 978-84-96842-06-9-

El Parque del Agua/ The Water Park, ACTAR/Expoagua Zaragoza 2008, Zaragoza 2008. Co-authored with Margarita
Jover ISBN-13: 978-8493547134, ISBN-10: 8493547131-

Z Arquitectura, Magazine of the Architects Association of Zaragoza. Chief Editor and founder: Iñaki Alday. Issues1-4, 2003-2005

Architectural magazine with a main topic in each issue:

Number 1 2003: Generations, about new generations of architects in the recent merit awards

Number 2 2003: Densimetry, about density in the city

Number 3 2004: Pagan Liturgies, about stadiums and their relationship with the city and the landscape Number 4 2005: Sweet water, about water landscapes and infrastructures ISSN: 4884-3605

Yamuna River Project, New Delhi Urban Ecology, ACTAR, 2018, Co-authored with Pankaj Vir Gupta.
ISBN 978-1-945150-67-8 This book was awarded as one of the best ten architecture books of 2018 with the DAM Book Award, by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Architecture Museum (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, DAM)-

Cities and Rivers, ACTAR Publishers, 2023. Co-authored with Margarita Jover, Jesus Arcos, Francisco Mesonero English edition: ISBN 978-1-945150-74-6
Spanish edition: Ciudades y Ríos, ISBN 978-1-945150-76-0