Antoni de Moragas Spa

Architect · Barcelona, 1941 – 2025

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Antoni de Moragas i Spà was born in Barcelona in 1941. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and at the Barcelona School of Architecture. He qualified as an architect in 1971 and in 1985 obtained his doctorate with the thesis “Antoni Mª Gallissà, arquitecto”. In Barcelona he worked with Ricardo Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura and with the Martorell/Bohigas/Mackay studio, and in Milan with the office of Vittorio Gregotti.

From 1972 he taught architectural design at the Barcelona School of Architecture and, from 1977, at the Eina School of Design. In 1987 he became tenured professor of the Chair of Architectural Design I at the School of Architecture and, in 1994, of the Chairs of Architectural Design VII and VIII. He sat several times on the school’s final-project examination board and directed doctoral courses. From 1995 he directed the postgraduate course “Interior i Interiors” at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

He was a visiting professor at the schools of architecture of Budapest and Belgrade, for the Association of Portuguese Architects as part of Lisboa’94, European Capital of Culture, and for the Menéndez Pelayo University in Santander. He also taught at the “La Sapienza” School of Architecture in Rome.

He received the Domènech i Muntaner Prize of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans d’Arquitectura in 1986, the FAD Architecture Award in 1987 and 1993, and the City of Barcelona Prize in 1990.

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