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Architect, Associate Professor of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and Curator of Architecture of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto. Carles Muro studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and he worked with Elías Torres and José A. Martínez Lapeña in Barcelona, and with Álvaro Siza in Porto before setting up in private practice in 1993. The work of his practice has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide. He held teaching positions at the ETSAB and was Director of the Masters Programme “Arquitectura: Crítica y Proyecto” (Architecture: Review and Project) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He was also Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has served as member of the editorial and advisory board of several architectural periodicals and co-director of the “Pre-Textos de Arquitectura” book series. A selection of his writings was collected in the volume Arquitecturas Fugaces (Fleeting Architectures, Lampreave, Madrid, 2007).