Maria Antonietta Crippa is currently professor “straordinario” of History of Architecture at the Politecnico University in Milan, at the DiAP (Department of Architecture and Planning of the School of Architecture). Since the early 1980s, she has published widely on architecture and town planning.

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. He is certainly one of the most creative. His restaurant, El Bulli, was named best restaurant in the world. Without a doubt, Ferran Adria will hold a prominent place in culinary history.

Influenced by Gaudi and his genius creative way of thinking, as by many other artists such as Salvador Dali, Ferran AdriaI in the late 1980’s, began performing cooking experiments which would forever change El Bulli’s place in culinary history.

Adria’s experiments are often associated with Molecular Gastronomy, the application of science to culinary practices and cooking phenomena. His creations are designed to surprise and enchant his guests but the importance of taste is always the ultimate goal.

Jordi Bonet i Armengol (Barcelona, 1925) is a Spanish architect, son of also architect Lluís Bonet i Garí, one of the disciples of Antoni Gaudí and continuator of the Expiatorio Temple of the Sagrada Familia. He is the brother of the composer Narcís Bonet and Lluís Bonet, pastor of the Sagrada Familia.

Law degree; Master in European Graphoanalysis, specialized in graphology, graphopathology and forensic graphology; Expert Judicial Calligrapher, expert in graphics, documents and forensic linguistic partner and Master in Mediation. Sttarted her professional career as a lawyer in 1991, specializing in Intellectual Property Law. In 2002 she combines her activity with the creation of the course “Sustainable Tourism Quality” for Med Forum of Mediterranean countries under the Ministry of Environment, organizing courses and teaching classes related to the legal framework.

In 2009 got involved in the Project for the creation of an International Archive of Art Objects, combining as a grafologist his collaboration with companies private and with Tecno Mataro Campus, as well as carrying out official and private judicial appraisals. Since 2012, he has collaborated with Gaudí World Congress and is currently studying the writing and signatures of Antoni Gaudí “The Genius of Gaudí through his writing”.

He 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 applied to some of the most revolutionary buildings in recent years: the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, the Paul Klee Centre in Bern, the P & C Weltstadthaus in Cologne, the new Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the Lufthansa headquarters in Frankfurt. He worked for Foster & Partners Architects in London. He has worked with Bollinger Grohmann, Werner Sobek, Jörg Schlaich, Bodo Rasch and Frei Otto.

(Madrid, 1953) is Professor of History of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona since 1993 and currently dean of the Faculty of Philology. principal investigator of the research project “History of Spanish literary critic (1868-1975)”, funded by the Ministry of Education, Universities, Research and Development. tasks contributes regularly to literary and artistic criticism for twenty years in La Vanguardia and has published articles in leading literary and hispanismo Spanish and foreign magazines.
He has edited works of Juan Valera, Perez Galdos, Leopoldo Alas “Clarin”, Miguel de Unamuno, Américo Castro, Camilo José Cela, Carmen Martin Gaite, etc.

Historian of Catalan and Spanish cultural history, photography, architecture, and public spaces.

Ph.D. Harvard University. Professor Emeritus of Modern Foreign Languages and Humanities/Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University. Author of studies on Park Güell and El Capricho, Claudio López and Eusebio Güell, the Joan Grau´s Astorga palace, Gaudí´s medievalism, and the public spaces of Barcelona. With Dennis Prindle, author of Park Güell in English with the Princeton Architectural Press, and in Spanish with Hermann Blume. Author of Castilla y León en los fondos fotográficos del Institut Amatller and other studies that bring into relation Catalonia and Castile and Leon.

Manager of Antoni Gaudí’s Torre Bellesguard and a founding member of the Bellesguard research team as head of images and audiovisuals. She also wrote the guide to the Torre Bellesguard.

She graduated in journalism from the Blanquerna Communication Department at Ramon Llull University (URL) and has a master’s in creative documentary from the IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She is a specialist in politics and international affairs and makes audiovisual documentaries. She has directed TV documentaries, worked as an editor and presenter on Catalunya Ràdio and written a number of articles for various magazines and other publications.

He was head of the Restoration Department at the Fundación de Gremios and director of the Conservation and Restoration of Historical Textiles Section at the Fundación Real Fábrica de Tapices. As director of the inventory of tapestries at the Patrimonio Histórico Español he is also involved in studying collections of tapestries that are part of Catalonia’s cultural heritage and he forms part of the team at the Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna at the University of Lleida. He currently combines his professional work as a curator at the Fundación Real Fábrica de Tapices and lecturer at several schools and universities with research on Antoni Gaudí. As an expert on Gaudí, he has written several books since 1987, when he presented his thesis, “Gaudí y el Modernismo en Comillas”.

Since June 1992 he has been president of the Gaudí Asociación Pro Beatificación de Antoni Gaudí, a civil association that works for the beatification of Gaudí and to promote his spiritual and artistic facets. The Asociación worked actively on the canonical process for his beautification which started in April 2000 and came to a solemn close in May 2003. On 9 July 2003 the process for declaring Gaudí a saint officially got under way. For over 19 years, José Manuel Almuzara has taken part in numerous acts, both alone and accompanied by other members of the Asociación, and published pamphlets, leaflets, reports and books on Antoni Gaudí as a servant of the Lord in his artistic, human and spiritual facets. These publications were produced in collaboration with the Real Cátedra de Gaudí, the Diocesan Archive in Barcelona Claret publishing house.

1987 born in Sverdlovsk, USSR; 2003-2009 studying architecture in MARKHI, Moscow; 2008-2009 studying architecture at ENSA d’Architecture de Marseille; Since 2006 participation in the project “The reconstruction of the Church in the Colonia Güell” at University of Innsbruck, Austria, including analytical drawings and 3D model of the Church; Since 2009 Senior Architect at OOO Architecture and Cultural Policy PNKB in Moscow; Since 2012 participated at the international D-A-CH project „Construction knowledge of early modernism – Shukhovs strategies for economical steel structures“; Since 2012 member of the Union of Architects of Russia; Prize-holder and participant of Russian and international competitions in architecture; A dissertation entitled “Irregular geometry brick implementation of Colonia Güell church hanging model by A. Gaudí” is currently in preparation.

1986 born in Moscow, USSR; 2003-2009 studying architecture in MARKHI, Moscow; 2008-2009 studying architecture at ENSA de Marseille. Since 2004 participation in the project “The reconstruction of the Church in the Colonia Güell” at University of Innsbruck, Austria, including analytical hand-drawings and 3D model of the Church. Since 2009 Senior Architect at OOO Architecture and Cultural Policy PNKB in Moscow. Since 2012 participated at the international D-A-CH project „Construction knowledge of early modernism – Shukhovs strategies for economical steel structures“. Since 2012 member of the Union of Architects of Russia; Prize-holder and participant of Russian and international competitions in architecture; A dissertation entitled “The role of color and light in the architecture of A. Gaudi on the example of the Colonia Güell Church” is currently in preparation.

Honorary doctor at the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). He was professor and dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, director of the Institute of Architecture History and Conservation, and founder and director of the Archive for Architecture and Structural Engineering at the University of Innsbruck. He received the Suchov Gold Medal from the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations and the Engineering Sciences Academy A.A. Prochorov in Moscow. President of the Tiroler Sachverständigenbeirat für Stadtkern- und Ortsbildschutz. Member of the Council for the Protection of Monuments of Austria. Member of ICOMOS in Germany and Austria. Member of DOCOMOMO in Austria. Academic at the Sant Jordi Catalan Royal Academy of Arts.

He’s an Industrial Engineer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and has a degree in Journalism (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). His career as an author and historian has produced several monographs and articles about Gaudí. You can read many of them on his website www.antonigaudi.org.

He has Publisher several books, among them Vidal i Barraquer, De la República al Franquisme (Barcelona, 1998), Gaudí, biografia de l’artista (Barcelona, 1999), Gaudí, Bozy architekt (Varsòvia, 2002), Antoni Gaudí, un arquitecto genial (4a ed., Barcelona, 2011), Gaudí, l’arquitecte de la Sagrada Família – biografia breu (Barcelona, 2012), Gaudí, el arquitecto de la Sagrada Família – biografía breve (Barcelona, 2012), Chartres Cathedral, Gaudí and La Sagrada Família (Barcelona, 2012), La catedral de Chartres, Gaudí i la Sagrada Família (Barcelona, 2012), La catedral de Chartres, Gaudí y la Sagrada Família (Barcelona, 2012), La cathédrale de Chartres, Gaudí et la Sagrada Família (Barcelona, 2012), La cattedrale di Chartres, Gaudí e la Sagrada Família (Barcelona, 2012).

Founder and administrator of the D & D photography library and the Eccart company, he collaborates with his father Robert Descharnes in the expertise of the originals of Salvador Dalí.

From his experience in organizing events dedicated to Dalí and his work, he has a dynamic knowledge in the service of an exceptional memory and an eye for his research of expertise.

Expertise requires experience and knowledge of the work, but also of the artist himself. Nicolas Descharnes spent years in Cadaques and frequently met Salvador Dali during work sessions and for him, the picture speaks for itself, tells, is part of the story.

Nicolas Descharnes was born on February 29 in Paris, France, was educated and studied architecture in Paris and fulfills his duty of memory in the Descharnes & Descharnes photobank.

Diego Maldonado is an arquitect from Colombia that has founded Gaudi Colombia, a company dedicated to the education and formation of students and professionals on gaudis techiniques and ways of being, to help them to innovate and create new ideas.

Professor emeritus and director of the Institute of Structural Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Spokesman for ICOMOS Monitoring Group in Germany. Consultant and advisor to the Wüstenrot Foundation. Member of DOCOMOMO, the German Foundation of Scientific Research, the Koldewey Association and the Alvar Aalto Association. He worked for Karl Kübler AG, L. Stromeyer & Co., Peter Poelzig, Frei Otto & Rolf Gutbrod and Burkhardt & Schumacher. Assistant to Frei Otto at the University of Stuttgart. He was involved in major projects such as the German Pavilion at the Montreal Universal Exposition and the stadiums for the Olympic Games in Munich.

PhD in engineering, he is a researcher professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), member of the Sant Jordi Catalan Royal Academy of Arts, professor at the University of Gestalt Xalapa (Veracruz), honorary professor at the State Academy of Arts and Architecture in Novosibirsk, vice-president of the Foundation Buildings Analysis, creator and director of the program for the rehabilitation of the Constructivist Heritage in Urals and West Siberia (Russia). He was professor at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. He has worked as an architect and stage designer for the major theatre companies in his country.

Her work explores different aspects of 20th- and 21st-century art. She has published several books on avant-garde art movements, as well as many papers for specialist journals and contemporary art anthologies. Her interests in art history encompass a wide range of ages and subjects, focusing mainly on 20th- and 21st-century art. Her 20th-century research centres on Catalan art, Spanish art and, above all, international avant-garde movements such as Dadaism, surrealism, abstract art and pop art. In 1999, after setting up the Art, Architecture and Digital Society research group, she began to focus on the subject of new media and digital technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective, exploring their effect on contemporary society and culture. Within this field, she has carried out research at the University of Barcelona’s Virtual Museum and helped organise international conferences and seminars on the subject.

Visiting lecturer at Kyushu University User Science Institute, School of Engineering Main Building, ambassador for Kesennuma, Rias Sanriku (Japan), and vice-president of the Nipon Centre in Canet de Mar.

His huge admiration for Antoni Gaudí led him to convert to Catholicism. His major works are his pieces for the Sagrada Família.

He visited Barcelona in 1978 and was amazed by the Sagrada Família. He asked to work as a stonecutter and was given the job once he had proved his worth. Since then he has worked on the Nativity facade, following Gaudí’s instructions. His extensive study and tremendous admiration for Gaudí led him to convert to Catholicism at the age of 37. In his native Japan, he is known as the “Japanese Gaudí”.
His sculptures for the Sagrada Família include 15 groups of sculptures for the Nativity facade, with the figures of angel musicians, as well as the fruit baskets that crown the pinnacles of the church. He also designed the polychromed-aluminium and glass doors, decorated with plants, insects and small animals, to be installed on the Nativity facade. He has been commissioned to restore the sculptures on the Porta del Rosari that were damaged in the Spanish civil war. He is also working on the design of the tubular bells Gaudí planned to install in the bell towers on the three facades of the church. He also wants to restore the sculpture Gaudí designed to crown La Pedrera.

Professor at Kanagawa University. He lived in Spain for ten years, studying Spanish architecture, especially Gaudí, and has become one of the leading Gaudí specialists worldwide. Author of numerous studies on the Catalan architect. His architectural works include the Tower of Zizou Hatagaya in Tokyo, Takatsu and Asahiya hotels in Tsukuba (Ibaragi), the Embassy of Taiwan in Tokyo, the houses of the golf courses in Uchihara Ibaragi, Higashi-Chiba in Chiba, Tong Hwa in Taipei, Kouzaki in Chiba, the Taiwan Cement Corporation Building and the Cathay Financial Centre Building in Taipei.

1986 born in Bolzano, Italy; 2005-2012 studying architecture in Innsbruck, Austria; 2012 master Thesis “Variants on Gaudí’s planning of the choir in the church in the Colónia Güell”; Since 2012-2013 reasearch assistant at the international D-A-CH project „Construction knowledge of early modernism – Shukhovs strategies for economical steel structures“. A dissertation entitled “All-russia exhibition of Nizhny Novgorod 1896 in context to the international and national exhibition culture” is currently in preparation.

1983 born in Schwaz in Tirol, Austria; 2003-2011 studying architecture in Innsbruck; 2011 master thesis “Gaudí´s project for a chapel in the Park Güell – attempt a reconstruction of the existing sources”. Since 2011 research assistant at the international D-A-CH project “Construction knowledge of early modernism – Shukhovs strategies for economical steel structures”. A dissertation entitled “Shukhovs lightweight towers in the context of national and international development” is currently in preparation.

Fan Di'an is the President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing.

Professor of art history and architecture at the University of Zittau / Görlitz (FH) in Zittau (Saxony, Germany). Member of the International Committee Specialising in Education and DOCOMOMO Theory (International Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement). He is an architectural engineer at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, and he earned a PhD from the University of Stuttgart, where he was scientific assistant to Frei Otto and Werner Sobek at the Institute of Lightweight Structures in Stuttgart on the “History of Structural design” project.

Architect of projects like the Park Diagonal Mar, the rehabilitation of Santa Caterina market in Barcelona and the new office tower for Gas Natural. She has also taken projects in many countries of Europe as the new Scottish Parliament.

1981 born in Bregenz, Austria; Since 2001 studying architecture in Innsbruck, Austria; 2004 participation in the project “The reconstruction of the Church in the Colonia Güell” at University of Innsbruck, Austria; since 2013 supporting the “Gaudí” book publication; Currently she works in a civil engineering office specialized in electrical engineering, concerning technical equipment and installation and safety engineering in tunnels.

Director of Arata Isozaki Associate Spain. He was president of the Center of Gaudinist Studies and project manager of the Gaudí Centre in Reus. Isozaki’s office in Spain has carried out many works, including the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the Palauet in Palafolls, the Man’s House in A Coruña, the Muntanyeta Park in Sant Boi, the University Park in Santiago de Compostela, the Isle of Blanes, access to CaixaForum in Barcelona, the Isozaki Atea in Bilbao, the Motor City of Teruel in Aragon, the D38 in Barcelona, the 10th floor of the Hotel Puerta América in Madrid, Arties Bahn in Val d’Aran and Bodegas La Horra in Burgos.

Lecturer and professor emeritus of aesthetics and composition of the School of Architecture of Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Honorary member of the Sant Jordi Catalan Royal Academy of Arts. He was professor at University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona, professor of sociology of culture and art at Sorbonne University (Paris), director of CSIC Institute of History and Archaeology in Rome and collaborator of Gaudí Chair at UPC. He received the Cross of Sant Jordi from the Catalan Government, as well as a prize from the Catalan Association of Art Critics and a Cultural Merit Medal from Barcelona City Council. Promoter of modernism in Catalonia, he founded magazines such as Algol and Dau al Set and was a member of an artistic group that included Pontius, Tàpies Cuixart, Tharrats and Cirlot

He won a number of international awards at the start of his career, in 1973, for his photographs of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural work. In 1982 he moved to Paris, where he set up one of the leading advertising photography studios. He is probably best known for his work on Christian Dior’s J’adore scent campaign in 2003. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Venice. His acclaimed publications include Die châteaux des Médoc [Médoc Châteaux] and Die schönsten und besten bistros von Paris [The Loveliest and Best Bars in Paris], in collaboration with German chef Wolfram Siebeck. In 2011 Braus published his photography book Stilles Venedig [Silent Venice]. He recently published a spectacular book with his photographs of Gaudí’s buildings taken between 1972 and 2012 (Antoni Gaudí, Braus, Berlin).

Director of the Master’s in Architecture Monuments Restoration at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia for over 25 years. Professor of urban planning at the Department of Transport Infrastructure and Territory at the Technical School of Engineering of Roads, Canals and Ports of Barcelona at the same university. Promoter of the Urban Planning Group 2c and editor of “2c: Construcció de la Ciutat”. Founder and current vice-president of SOS Monuments. He was head of the historical archive of the Architects of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands Association, president of the Association for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture and secretary of Friends of Gaudí.