Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.

The Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) is the largest and oldest school of architecture in Catalonia. It offers training in all cycles of university education, both undergraduate and master’s degrees, and has a prominent role in research in the Spanish, European and Latin American university environment thanks to the work of its teaching staff, who meet through research groups of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona Tech (UPC). The school also leads the teaching of landscape design, in Spain and worldwide, and is in constant collaboration with the most prestigious schools in Europe (EMiLA).

As a public school, its vocation is to serve society as a whole, with a strong commitment to architecture and a contemporary, livable and cultured city, and with a special sensitivity to quality, democratic public space. The studies taught have a strong technical, cultural and urban component, which allows our graduates to place themselves in the most diverse positions in the process of defining and building the environment. Becoming liberal professionals, civil servants or hired by the industry, capable of understanding reality through the architectural project. Through its critical capacity and intellectual influence the ETSAB continues to exert a continuous influence on the development and design of the city of Barcelona and maintains a permanent dialogue in the debates that the city generates. This ability to generate and sustain the genuine debates of architecture and urban development has a notable influence on the national and international territory. In this way, it is possible to build a world reference in urban planning, building design, sustainability, re-use and alternative energies. The ETSAB complements its cultural dimension by offering permanent activities in terms of exhibitions, conferences, seminars, round tables, publications, screenings or concerts. It also has one of the most important architectural archives in the world, with documents since 1711: Gaudí & Jujol research Chairs. The size of the ETSAB, as well as its teaching curricula points towards a level of excellence in all its educational offerings. As a result of this potential, a solid academic exchange structure has been consolidated year after year between ETSAB’s students and faculty with those of other international universities (about 200 worldwide partners).