Gaudí’s Method Special Edition
The Gaudi World Congress will unfold from November 23-24, 2023, seeking to explore Gaudi’s design methods and techniques, in order to collectively design a better future
Guided by Gaudí's humanistic, sustainable, and naturalistic philosophy, our mission transcends mere commemoration; it embodies the ambition to shape the future by cherishing the wisdom of the past and innovating in the present.
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Past speakers
Some of our previous speakers and experts
As an UN SDG Advocate, Social Innovation, Climate Change Agriculture, Food and Beverage Expert Network member of the World Economic Forum, Global Food Reformist, and Sustainable Futurist, Marc is on a mission to empower billions of global citizens to live an adaptive lifestyle of health and sustainability within planetary boundaries.
He has a degree in landscape design from the Escuela del Castillo de Batres in Madrid. He is an honorary academic at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. Acclaimed worldwide, since 1979 he has completed over 100 projects, including Nordberg (New Jersey), Flynn Garden (Florida), Spanish embassy (Tokyo), among others
Arnold Walz is an architect who runs Designtoproduction, his own company, with headquarters in Stuttgart and Zurich. 3D Geometric Processing Specialist in architectural design. He is a pioneer in the development of CAD parametric models of construction planning.
Professor at Kanagawa University. Has become one of the leading Gaudí specialists worldwide. His architectural works include the Tower of Zizou Hatagaya in Tokyo, Takatsu and Asahiya hotels in Tsukuba (Ibaragi), the Embassy of Taiwan in Tokyo, among others
Bea Fröis studied Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She graduated with the Master’s Thesis, „Gaudí’s unfinished church in the Colonia Güell, – an attempt at a reconstruction according to the urban context”.
Having worked at the construction site of “La Sagrada Familia” in Barcelona for several months in 2000, she has researched in Gaudi’s form finding methodes. Based on the graphostatik calculations of Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, she researched and reconstructed a possible hanging model of “La Sagrada Familia”. Following this work, she calculated and built several other hanging models for exhibitions in museums in Barcelona and Austria.
Ferran Adria has been called the world’s greatest chef. Referred to as “the Salvador Dali of the kitchen”, his restaurant, El Bulli, was named best restaurant in the world and know he is creating El Bulli Foundation.