Vicente Guallart
Former Chief Architect, City of Barcelona
Spain
Future of Living Summit
Vicente Guallart is an architect and urbanist redefining 21st-century cities through ecological design, citizen empowerment, and innovation. With his company Urbanitree, he leads award-winning architectural projects and master plans around the globe
From 2011 to 2015, he served as Chief Architect of Barcelona (now the UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture 2026) where he helped shape the city’s strategic vision and major urban development projects.
He founded the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in 2001, an internationally renowned research and education institution based in Barcelona that has more than 2,500 alumni around the world.
