Born in Barcelona, the 24th February of 1956, he leads the  Barcelona office with Carmen Fiol. He is involved in client liaison and all stages of project development. He is jointly responsible for the design direction of the practice.

He graduated from the superior technical School of architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in 1981. Rewarded by the William Fullbright grant in 1985, he attended the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University, New York, receiving a Master in Architecture and Building Design (1986).

He was responsible in the Urban Design Department for the urban transformation developed throughout the city of Barcelona between 1981-87 and awarded the Harvard University Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design in 1990 for its ‘exemplary demonstration of leadership in the physical conformation and renewal of a city’. He was Associate Director of the Institute of Urban Development and Olympic Games. In this capacity, Andreu designed and coordinated Olympic projects in preparation of Barcelona’s hosting of the 1992 Olympic Games. The development for these games were recognized internationally as creating a meaningful legacy in the urban design landscape of Barcelona.

He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura (ETSAB) in Barcleona, was Visiting Professor at the Politecnico de Milano to Piacenza, the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Since 1994, he has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of Barcelona.

He is particularly interested in urban questions and the changing conditions of the contemporary European city. More specifically, he has addressed through teaching and practice the complexity of each site that requires the sensitive interpretation of place and space as a critical synthesis of historic layers, existing natural and man-made systems, cultural forces, and the potential for future meaning. The success of the designs resided not only in their ability to address these often conflicting site and program characteristics, but in their creation of a whole larger than the sum of the parts. in this changing context.

A Barcelonian by birth (17th October 1956), she graduated in architecture at ETSAB in 1981. She received a Scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya Grant in 1985-87 and William Kinne Fellowship 1986-87. She received her Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in New York in 1986. She has been pupil of Oriol Bohigas, Manuel de Solà-Morales and Peter Eisenmann. From 1981-1988 she was a leading architect in the Departament de Project Urbans de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona whose Public Spaces between 1981 and 1987 were awarded the Harvard University Prince of Wales Prize in 1990.

From 1993-2002 she was professor in the Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori at ETSAB, in 1997 she was Member of the Jury of the ‘Concours Imperatrice’ Foundation Roi Baudouin à Bruxelles and professor at ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design), Venezia 1998. Since 2003 she‘s visiting by professor at the Scuola di Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Cagliari. Doctor Europeus at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, 2007.

• Membre del jurat del ‘Concorso per la progettazione di n. 20+22 alloggi V. Indipendenza, Oristano’, A. R. E. A Oristano, Sardenya (2008)
• Title in Doctor Europeus at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, 2007 Retícules i diagonals. El Pla Jaussely de Barcelona de 1907 i el Pla Burnham de Chicago de 1909.
• Membre del comitè científic “Qualità emergente/architetture recenti in Sardegna” del INARCH, ( 2006)
• Visiting Professor at the Scuola di Architettura dell’Università Cagliari, (2003-2009)
• Professor of the Architectural Design Workshop at ITESM Monterrey, Fundació Politècnica, UPC, (2002-2003)
• Professor at URBS I- Urbanistic Forum, Dialogue of European Universities (ETSAB) , Palazzo Grassi, Chioggia (2002)
• Associate Professor at the Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori at l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (1994)
• Professor at ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design), Venezia (1998)
• Visiting Professor at the Architecture School, University of Bath (1997-98)
• Responsible Professor for Socrates Exchange Programme,ETSAB/UPC – GSAE/ University of Bath (1997-2000)
• Member of the panel of judges of ‘Concours Impératrice’, Fondation Roi Baudouin, .Ville de Bruxelles (1997)
• Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design, Columbia University, New York (1985-86)
• Architect in the Urban Design Department in the City of Barcelona (1981-1988)
• Registered architect at the Catalan Architects Association (COAC) (1981)
• Graduated in Architecture, Specializing in Design, Urbanism and History. Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (1981)

• CIRIT Grant, (Comissió Interdepartamental de Recerca i Innovació Tecnològica) Generalitat de Catalunya: ‘Burnham Plan of Chicago 1909’. Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago (1987)
• William Kinne Fellowship, Columbia University: ‘1911 Voyage d’Orient of Le Corbusier revisited. Homage to the centennial of L.C.’ (1986-87)
• CIRIT Grant: ‘The Configuration of Urban Form through the Public Realm’. Columbia
  University. New-York (1985-86).
• ILAUD scholarship, (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design). Director: Giancarlo de Carlo, Urbino (Italy 1979).
• IAESTE scholarship, (International Association Exchange Technical Experience). Warsaw (1978).