Vicente Guallart
Vicente Guallart

IAAC Co-founder / Valldaura Labs Senior Advisor / MAEBB Co-Director / Board of Trustees Member

Vicente Guallart was a chief architect (2011-2015) of Barcelona City Council with the responsibility of developing the strategic vision for the city and its major…

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Laia Pifarré
Laia Pifarré

Valldaura Labs Executive Director

Laia has a degree in Law from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2002) and Erasmus program at the Università degli Studi di Parma (2003). She participated…

Michael Salka

Co-Director of MAEBB / Technical Director of Valldaura Labs

Michael Salka is Co-director of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities (MAEBB) and Technical Director of Valldaura Labs at the Institute for Advanced…
Esin Aydemir

MAEBB Coordinator

Esin Aydemir is a practicing architect specialising in timber structures. She is currently the Academic Coordinator of the MAEBB program at IAAC.

Marielena Papandreou

Expert in Digital Fabrication / MRAC Faculty

Marielena is a designer, maker, researcher and educator. Currently, she works on R&D projects at Valldaura Labs, focusing on timber, circular design, and robotics. She…

Bruno Ganem Coutinho

Green Fab Lab Manger

Bruno Ganem Coutinho is a Brazilian architect and researcher born and raised in Brasília. He currently acts as the Green Fab Lab Manager at the…
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Laura Sanchez

Housekeeper

Oliver Needham

Researcher

Olly is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher and maker who obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from the UK, before working in the design industry…

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Alkiviadis Avarkiotis

Architect/Fabrication Research & Development

Alkiviadis is an architect and researcher from Greece focused on bioregional and circular construction. With an Integrated Master’s in Architecture from the Aristotle University of…

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