Amadeu Santacana

Amadeu Santaca joined the Department of Architecture in the Stuckeman School as an assistant teaching professor for fall 2024. He came to Penn State following a 24-year term with the Polytechnic University of Catalunya/Barcelona Tech Vallès School of Architecture (ESTAV-UPC) where he most recently served as Serra Hunter Professor and chair of the architectural design department. He was also a member of the Proto research group where he focused his work on machine learning and relational architecture.

Santacana has two books to his name — “Event in a World as Juxtaposition,” published by Fundación Arquia in 2020 and “Residential landscapes,” published by AxA in 2022 — and was co-editor of “Create!” (Actar, 2014), “Crossed Lines: New Territories of Design” (Actar, 2003), and “Soriano & Palacios: It’s small, It Rains and with Ants” (Actar, 2000). He has also collaborated with several magazines including "Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme" and "Fisuras de cultura contemporánea."

Santacana has also curated exhibitions such as “Crossed Lines: New Territories of Design” at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, “Diagrams” in the “Climate Change Series” for the Housing State Department at Madrid and the “P Event” at the Spanish Foundation of the Official College of Architects of Madrid.

In addition to his time at ESTAV-UPC, Santacana has been a visiting professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, UIC Barcelona, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and at the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

In practice, he is a partner at Barlebyt Studio, which opened in 2020, and he served as a partner at Nug architects from 2000 to 2020.

• Ph.D. in Architecture, Barcelona School of Architecture
• B.Arch., Polytechnic University of Catalunya/Barcelona Tech Vallès School of Architecture