Manuel Gausa

Manuel Gausa Navarro (14 March 1959 – 23 August 2025) was a Catalan architect.

Life and work

Gausa was born in Barcelona on 14 March 1959. He graduated as an architect in 1986 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB), obtaining a doctorate in 2005 from the same university.[1]

In 1994 he was a founding partner of the firm Actar Arquitectura, dedicated to architecture and urbanism. In 2004 he founded Gausa+Raveau actarchitecture with Florence Raveau.[2]

Between 1991 and 2000 he was the director of the magazine Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme, a publication of the College of Architects of Catalonia.[3]

As a teacher, he taught at ETSAB, and since 2008 he was a full professor at the School of Architecture of Genoa.[4]

He received several awards, including the Medal of the Académie de Architecture of France in 2000.[5]

Gausa died on 23 August 2025, at the age of 66.[6]

References

  1. ^ Gausa, Manuel; Vivaldi, Jordi (15 April 2021). The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture: Conformative, Distributive and Expansive Protocols for an Informational Practice: 1990-2020. Actar D, Inc. ISBN 978-1-63840-937-3.
  2. ^ Carta, Maurizio (4 June 2024). Romanzo urbanistico: Storie dalle città del mondo (in Italian). Sellerio Editore srl. ISBN 978-88-389-4707-0.
  3. ^ "MANUEL GAUSA NAVARRO".
  4. ^ "Rubrica UniGe". rubrica.unige.it. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  5. ^ "Nota Biofrafica" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2012.
  6. ^ Tur, Antoni Ribas (23 August 2025). "Muere el arquitecto Manuel Gausa a los 66 años". Ara en Castellano (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
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