Numerary Member
Technological Sciences: PhD in Architecture
Date of admission: April 23, 2025
Admission speech: “The Practica Geometriae of Sacred Architecture”
Reply speech: H.E. Dr. Juan Trias de Bes, PhD in Architecture
Outstanding career: Director of the School of Architecture at the International University of Catalonia. Specialist in architectural geometry, historical heritage and digital modelling of medieval art and architecture. His work combines scientific research, technological innovation and heritage preservation.
Dr. JOSEP LLUÍS I GINOVART
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Architecture and Full Professor of University in Architectural Heritage Intervention (2016) at the School of Architecture of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
- Architect from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1982), the same year he founded the architectural practice Lluís i Ginovart Arquitectes, based in Barcelona and Tortosa.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Director of the Department of Architecture of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2014-2016).
- Dean of the School of Architecture of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2016-2022).
- Director of the recognised research groups Architectural Heritage Patri-ARQ (URV) and Architectural Heritage Research (UIC).
- He has participated in 32 international conferences, twelve of them as a member of the Scientific Committee Heritage Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage.
- Notable participation in Protection and Intervention in Architecture in the United States (2017).
PUBLICATIONS
- His work has been recognised in the Guide to Modern and Contemporary Catalan Architecture and catalogued as BIPCC within the Law 9/1993 on Catalan Cultural Heritage.
- Author of the master plans for Sancta Maria Dertosae, Novitiate of the Teresian Community, Episcopal Palace of Tortosa, and the Catalogue of Buildings and Urban and Rural Ensembles of Historical, Artistic and Environmental Value of the City and Municipality of Tortosa.
- He has published in 26 books, among which stand out internationally Scientific Knowledge of Spanish Military Engineers in the Seventeenth Century (2018) and Mathematics and the Art and Science of Building Medieval Cathedrals (2019).
- Author of 68 articles in indexed journals and member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heritage Architecture, Journal of Architecture Research and Development, Civil Engineering and Architecture, and the International Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- European Prize for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI).
- Awarded the Grand Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope Benedict XVI (2012).
- Gold Medal of the European Forum Cum Laude (2019).
