Graduate in Architecture from the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB). In the course of his studies he worked with Elías Torres and José A. Martínez Lapeña in Barcelona and, later, with Álvaro Siza in Porto, before beginning his independent professional career as an architect in 1993. He has been on the editorial board of various publications and a director of the “Pre-Textos de Arquitectura” collection.

Between 1993 and 2015 he had a busy teaching career at the ETSAB. He has also lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (Master’s Unit, 1996-1998) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013-2018). He currently runs the architecture programmes at the Serralves Museum in Porto.