Manuel Gausa
Spanish architect (1959–2025)
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Manuel Gausa Navarro (14 March 1959 – 23 August 2025) was a Catalan architect.
Life and work
Gausa was born in Barcelona on 14 March 1959. He graduated as an architect in 1986 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB), obtaining a doctorate in 2005 from the same university.[1]
In 1994 he was a founding partner of the firm Actar Arquitectura, dedicated to architecture and urbanism. In 2004 he founded Gausa+Raveau actarchitecture with Florence Raveau.[2]
Between 1991 and 2000 he was the director of the magazine Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme, a publication of the College of Architects of Catalonia.[3]
As a teacher, he taught at ETSAB, and since 2008 he was a full professor at the School of Architecture of Genoa.[4]
He received several awards, including the Medal of the Académie de Architecture of France in 2000.[5]
Gausa died on 23 August 2025, at the age of 66.[6]