EDUCATION
2009-11 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, United States (MSc) Master on Architecture in Urban Design.
2008-09 Studies for Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
2000-07 Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB). Six years of full time studies. Official degree of Architect in 2007. One year of study at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago (United States) and another year at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain).
1986-00 Primary, Secondary, and Bachillerato and COU (1995-1999). Secondary education at Aula Escola Europea, Barcelona. This is equivalent to the High School Diploma. Aula is an excellent private, non-denominational school with bilingual teaching in Spanish and Catalan, plus education in French and English.
MEMBERSHIP
Current Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya, Spain. Professional affiliation number: 55.120
2011 Alumni Association Harvard University
2010-11 European Design Circle Club, president of the student club at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
2010-11 Research Advancement Initiative, New Geographies Laboratory at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
2022 (6 months) Review money given to the files of the Meva Llar, Spain. Consultancy work at the Barcelona Municipal Institute of Persons with Disabilities.
2019 (one year)Accessibility Plan of Polinyà. Work with the Diputación de Barcelona to evaluate the accessibility of 5 public spacess.
2019 (2 months) Consulting work in the architectural office Oasis A for a project addressing interior design improvements of a house in the neighbourhood of El Raval, Barcelona.
2019 (4months) Assistant to Enrique Rovira-Beleta for the editing and publication of an article on accessible emergency exits for the Barcelona Olympic games. Consultant for a plan of accessibility improvements of a building for Airbus in Seville, Spain. I also gathered and compared legislation on accessibility of from each Autonomus Regional Communities in Spain.
2017-18 Accessibility Plan of Barcelona, Spain. Consultancy work at the Barcelona Municipal Institute of Persons with Disabilities.
2012-13 HdM / HAPI (Hidalgo de Miguel / Híbridos de Arquitectura Paisaje e Investigación), Quito, Ecuador. Founder and partner with architect Carolina Hidalgo.
2011- Arctora LLC, New York, United States. Partner and founder of the office with Abraham Zamcheck.
2011-12 SWA Group (Sosaki Walker Architects) Laguna Beach, California, United States. Worked on several large-scale projects in China from conceptual design to schematic, to design development. At the same time got involved in marketing efforts for SWA expansion in Latin America.
2008-09 R-are Architecture, London and United States. Office directed by Nathalie Rozencwajg and Michel da Costa Gonçalvez.
2007-08 Rafael Viñoly Architects headed by architect Rafael Viñoly (August 2007-September 2008) in London, United Kingdom. The office with 280 professionals is based in New York, and has affiliate offices in London and Los Angeles. Rafael Viñoly Architects is famous for its international and civic approach to architecture focusing on large-scale public international buildings and urban planning designs, such as the Tokyo Forum or the World Trade Center competition in New York. From August 2007 to 2008 he worked in the design of Raffles City Bahrain which is going to be the most prominent building on the artificial island of Bahrain Bay, in the capital Manama. Raffle City, promoted by Capital Land —a Singaporean real estate company— is a 450,000 sq.m. mixed-use residential and retail building composed of three towers, terraced apartments, and sky villas all sitting on top of a shopping mall with parking space underneath. I got involved in every single part of the building but my main focus was on the curved tower and the sky villas —patio houses elevated thirty meters above ground. I developed these innovative, experimental and changeling architectural typologies from stage C (design development) to stage E (final project detailing). It was a unique opportunity to learn how big scale architecture is produced, managed and designed in one of the most dynamic locations in the world.
SELECTED PROJECTS
2012-13 Monterrey Swimming Pool, Loja, Ecuador. HdM / HaPI.
2012 Shenzhen Streetscape Competition, China. SWA.
2012 Changsha Wangcheng Pingtang Baxizhou Island, Changhsa, China. SWA.
2012 Kunming Zijun Mountain Eco-Resort, Kunming, China. SWA.
2012 Rizhao North Development District: Mountain and Lake, Rizhao, China. SWA.
2012 Anxi Tieguanyin Ecological and Cultural Park, Anxi, China. SWA.
2012 Shunde Waterfront Park, Shunde China. SWA.
2011 Student Center in Jiatong University, Shanghai, China. Arctora LLC. Design of a student center with 16 old rural china houses transported and rebuilt together with old and new buildings on that university campus.
2011 Master plan of Qinhuangdao, China. Arctora LLC. The project of 200 Ha preserve the delicate maritime ecology proposing new residential typologies, a new shopping center, as well as spaces for a hotel and recreation.
2008 Raffles City Bahrain, Bahrain. Rafael Viñoly Architects. The project is one of the more important buildings of the artificial island of Bahrain Bay, in Manama, capital of the Bahrain Kingdom. Raffles City is a project promoted by CapitaLand, a promoter business from Singapore. It is a building of 450,000 squared meters with a mixed used composed by a hotel, residential area, and commercial areas. Three towers, patio houses and villas, on top of a platform that covers a shopping center and two floors underneath of car parking, compose the design of the building.
2008 Bethnal Green City Hall Hotel, London, United Kingdom. R-are Architecture. The project consists of a renovation and extension of a 9,000 m2 of the old mayor house in Bethnal Green (East London) to be converted into a hotel and convention center.
2007 Agro-environment center in Viladecans, Barcelona. Robert ETSAB. The project and thesis explores and innovates from a multidisciplinary approach themes related to sustainability, social interaction and spaces of construction, urban planning, renewal of the land around it, as well as a landscape ecological design.
2003 Ford-Calumnet Ambiental Center, Workshop Glenn Murcutt, Chicago. Illinois Institute of Technology.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2010 Community Service Fellowship Program, International Travel Grant, Mexico City (2010). The program was designed to promote the development of the project “Atlas del Espacio Público para la Autoridad del Espacio Público del Gobierno de la Ciudad de México”. It is an atlas of all the public space for the municipal government of Mexico City. It involved the creation of a new platform to locate resources on a map, in order to be able to compare, evaluate, and propose interventions on public spaces of the city of Mexico.
2009-11 Fellowship from Caja Madrid Foundation to undertake two years Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, United States.
2005-06 Fellowship Sicue-Séneca, Madrid (2005- 2006) Complete fellowship program between Spanish universities to undertake a whole academic year of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
2003 - 04 Scholarship to study one year at the School of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT, in Chicago, United States (2005- 2006).
WORK EXPERIENCE
2006 June-August Estudio Jgalante & Cia. Arquitectos directed by the architect Javier Galante, adrid, Spain. Work on a project of a single family house in the outskirts of Madrid, as well as a project of urban renewal of the old neighborhood of the town of Peñíscola, in Valencia, Spain.
2005-2006 Estudio Hand (December 2005, and February-June 2006) directed by the architect Sergio de Miguel in Madrid, Spain. We completed two projects for a competition for two cultural centers and another competition for a social housing project in Madrid.
2005 January-February Studio Donato Architects directed by architect Emili Donato i Folch, in Barcelona. Participation in two competitions for a social housing project in Barcelona.
2004 May-August Studio Krueck & Sexton Architects in Chicago, United States. Eight weeks collaborating in the renovation of a church in Chicago, as well as the design of a bus station for a competition to be undertaken in the city of New York.
2003 June-July Studio Verzone-Woods Architects directed by the architects Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods, in Rougemont, Switzerland. Summer international program for outstanding young architects. Projects of a new apartment in Barcelona and a kiosk in Latas (Aragón, Spain) and the design of landscape installations for Rougemont, Switzerland.
2001 July-August Studio Mega directed by the architect and professor Dai Nagasaka, in Kyoto, Japan. Working on models of several uni-family houses. Also visiting several buildings under construction. Work on a model of a unitary-family house that was published in the magazine The Japan Architect, JA number 46 (summer 2002), pp. 97-101.
2001 June-July Studio of Josep Lluis Sisternas i Suris in Barcelona. Several working models centered on a project of social housing and an office building of twenty floors at Diagonal Mar, Barcelona.
INTERNSHIPS
2011 Summer Assistant Researcher at the office of temporal exhibits of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, to research and generate necessary material for the exhibit “75 GSD Anniversary”. Working on themes of urban design, urbanism and landscape.
2011 Summer Assistant Researcher, with professors Kongjian Yu, Peter Rowe, Stephen Ervin, and Mark Mulligan to edit a book of studio classes entitled Peri-Urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing.
2011 Spring-Summer Assistant Researcher working on the Project of Gulf Encyclopedia of Sustainability and Urbanism (GESU). Multidisciplinary Project by Harvard University and sponsored by Dohaland Foundation to study the architecture and urbanism sustainable factors in nine cities of the Persian Gulf. The directors of the project and team where Spiro Pollalis and Nader Ardalan.
2011 Spring Assistant Researcher for the class of the School of the Year 2030 of the professor El Hadi Jazairy, Associate Professor of Urban Planning Department, and Harry Spence co-director of the Doctor of Education Leadership Program. Workshop collaboration with doctoral students of the Harvard Education School and students of the Design School for the future design in a place in the center of Boston. The work was presented and published in the university magazine and exposed in the Gutnam Library, at Harvard University.
2010 Fall Assistant Researcher with professor Hashim Sarkis, professor Aga Khan of Landscape and Urbanism, at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. The position of Assistant Researcher consisted in doing research and graphic representation of all the research produced in the GSD with external funds to be incorporated in the Research Advancement Iniciative at GSD.
2010 Summer Assistant Researcher with Cristina del Pozo, Assistant Professor of the Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid and invited researcher in the Graduate School of Design in Harvard University. The worked consisted in an alternative proposal for the future urban growth of Segovia, Spain. The plan maintains the rural and peri-urban landscape and the existing roman aqueduct with a combination of urban typologies.
2010 Summer Assistant Researcher with the visiting professor Kongjian Yu, and Stephen Ervin and Jane Hutton to edit the book of studio projects named Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Sujiatuo, Beijing.
2005-06 Architecture one academic year at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Selected and with a scholarship in the program Sicue-Séneca by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Attendance to the classes of projects named “Grupo de exploración proyectual” with professors Andrés Perea, Izaskun Chinchilla, and Andrés Jaque. Also classes of photography, performance, constructed, history of Spanish architecture and landscape.
2003-04 Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT, Chicago. One full academic year in a selective interchange program, between the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the IIT. The year of studies equivalent to the fourth year of the architectural studies. All courses were in English like History of Architecture from 1850 and 1950 with the professor Anne Pedret. I worked on a presentation about the building “Bon Marché” in Paris. Studio classes with Peter Roesch and Susan Conger-Austin and a course on Urbanism in Chicago taught by Martin Felsen. Other courses were construction, computer applications with FormZ, and anthropology of spaces.
2004 Workshop with Glenn Murcutt Pritzker awarded Australian architect. Two intensive weeks developing the completion project of Ford-Calumnet about an Ambiental Center in the south of Chicago. The workshop was centered on the design of the building studying the surrounding conditions and sustainable principles.
2002 Summer Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Taking a course on History of Architecture in Boston by professor Charissa N. Terranova. Intensive course of eight weeks —four credits— obtaining grade “A” (excellent). Final work on “Boston Government Center by Paul Rudolf”.
2000 Summer University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The international Summer School. Three courses on Medieval Architecture and Society, The Renaissence in Italy and England, and Landscape in England. Two weeks of intensive academic classes. Six daily hours of classes in addition to specific conferences.
1999 Summer Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander, Spain. Taking a course on Historia del Arte y la Arquitectura del Siglo XX (History of Art and Architecture in 20th Century) directed by Luis Fernández-Galiano and Juan Antonio Ramírez. Six hours daily.
1998 Summer The University of California Berkeley California, United States. Taking an eight weeks course on Computer Applications in Architecture, with Dr. M. H. Abdel-Kader. Principles of drawing 2-Dimension in CAD. Techniques for architects to create presentations, schematic drawings, and managing documents. Final work was the perspective presentations of a building. Final grade “A”.
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Catalan, English:. Excellent competence in speaking and writing.
English: near bilingual, both spoken and written. TOEFL (September 2008) 111, reading 30, listening 29, speaking 27, writing 25; (March 2003) 223-277, listening 28, structure 13-29, and reading 26; (January 1998) 603. First Certificate (June 1998) grade: B. Two years of graduate level courses on Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Two years working experience in London, United Kingdom. A year as an official student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago, attending undergraduate and graduate level courses. Papers written in English and a thirty-minute presentation for History of Modern Thought. A year of secondary education (senior year) at the North Shore Country Day School, in Chicago. Thirteen courses in advanced and intermediate English at the North American Institute (Barcelona). One course in English Proficiency. Summer courses on Architecture at University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Harvard University (Boston), and University of California Berkeley. One month of studies at Immanuel College, Adelaide, Australia. Four summer subjects at La Jolla High School (San Diego California).
French: Good level in oral and reading. DELF, Diplome d'Etudes en Langue Française. I successfully passed the six levels of the French diploma from A1 to A6: A1 Expression générale (June 1996); A2 Expression des idées et des sentiments (June 1996); A3 Analyse du contenu d'un texte et expression écrite (January 1997); A4 Pratique du fonctionnement de la langue (June 1997); A5 Langue française (January 1998); and A6 Expression spécialisée (January 1999).Twelve years of French courses in primary and secondary school (between 1987-1998) at Aula Escola Europea, Barcelona. Several subjects were undertaken in French.
COMPUTER SKILLS
AutoCAD 2D-3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, CorelDraw, Vector Works, Rhinoceros, Microsoft Office. PC and Macintosh computers.
PUBICATIONS
2011 november Bert de Muynck, Preservation Playgrounds (New York: Mark, 2011) Jiatong University Campus project published in Mark Magazine.
2011 June Robert W. de Miguel, and Iddo Ginat, Low Cost Landscape: Air Travel as a Case Study of the Changing European Urban-Scape. Article accepted in the Writing Cities Seminary with students of MIT, Harvard, and the London School of Economics in London, United Kingdom.
2011 Robert W. de Miguel, Kongjian Yu, Peter Rowe, Stephen Ervin, Mark Mulligan, and Cameron Barradale, Peri-Urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
2011 Iddo Ginat, and Robert W. de Miguel, “Low-cost landscapes: Diversified air travel and spatial development in Europe”, article published in Bezalel Papers on Architecture (http://www.bezalel -architecture.com/2011/02/low-cost-landscapes-diversified-air-traveland-spatial-development-in-europe/).
2011 Spa in Wadi Rum, London Metropolitan Urban Corridors, project and thesis published in A View on Harvard GSD Vol.3 (London: Tank Form Ltd., 2011).
2011 June Cristina del Pozo, Robert W. de Miguel, and Blanca Lleó, Landscape Urbanism Tactical Design Strategies for the New Peri-Urban Landscapes of the City of Segovia, Spain. Abstract accepted for the 48th International Federation of Landscape Architects, IFLA meetings, and presented by Cristina del Pozo in the conference.
2010 Reinventing the Cross-Bronx Expressway, published project on A View on Harvard GSD Vol. 2 (London: Tank Form Ltd.).
2010 November Research and Development Demonstration Landscape, project published in A View on Harvard GSD Vol.2 by Emily Waugh ed., GSD Platforms 03 (Barcelona: Harvard Graduate School of Design and Actar, 2010). Project also presented at Platform 03 in the Gund Hall Lobby, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010 Robert W. de Miguel, Jane Hutton, and Kongjian Yu, eds., Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Sujiatuo, Beijing (ISBN: 978-7-112-12953-9).
2010 Alan March, Marisol García, and Robert W. de Miguel, Planning as Strategic Knowledge: Steering the Boom in Barcelona & Melbourne.
2002 Japan Architect 46, 97-101 pp.