Graduate in Architecture from the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB), founding member of Josep Ferrando Architecture and dean at the Barcelona La Salle Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSALS). Ferrando has been combining professional architecture with teaching and cultural management since the start of his career.

His works have been exhibited in the USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Japan, among other countries. He has also held monographic exhibitions at the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia (2014), the Berlin Architekturforum Aedes gallery and Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Modern Art (MAM). Among other universities, he has given lectures at the Harvard GSD, Cornell University, Universidad Católica de Chile, Venice IUAV, HCU (Hamburg) and Facoltà di Architettura de Palerm, and he has spoken at international conferences such as the UIA 2011 (Tokyo) and the BIAU 2019 (Asunción). His work has received international acclaim, such as first prize at the Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture (BIABA) in 2015.

Ferrando has also enjoyed a separate career as a teacher since 1998, mainly at the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture(ETSAB), at the La Salle Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSALS) and at the UTDT School of Architecture and Urban Studies in Buenos Aires, where he edited the book Bitácora Barcelona (UTDT, 2014). In addition, he has lectured at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC), the Hochschule für Technik Zürich (HSZT), the Eina School of Design and Art and the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, where he is the director of the Master's Degree in Space Design Methodology. The study on collective housing conducted at the ETSAB won the 2016 City of Barcelona for his “Arquitectes de capçalera” [Architects on Call] research.

Since 2018 he has been the director of the Catalan Association of Architects (COAC) Department of Culture and he is a recipient of the National Culture Award.