Vicente Guallart
Future city prototyper
Architect, author, and urban planner
“We cannot continue designing cities and buildings as if nothing had happened.”
Author and former Chief Architect of Barcelona City Council, Vicente Guallart uses the principles of global connectivity and local self-sufficiency to invent the city of the future – and build it in the present. Director of Guallart Architects, he co-founded and directed the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and recently won the Xiong’an Architecture Design Contest by planning China’s first post-pandemic ‘Self-Sufficient City.’