Manuel Bailo Esteve

Ph.D. Architect Associate Tenured Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia Research Bailo Esteve’s research explores how public space is activated by Urban Catalysts - energy and informal agents. The resulting dissertation, Urban Catalyst, has been published by Actar Publishers. Manuel Bailo Esteve has been teaching and lecturing at several different universities around the world (Harvard, Arizona Barcelona, etc are the last universities). Practice He founded BAILORULL in Barcelona in 1995 with Rosa Rull Their work includes a wide range of projects, moving from the urban scale to interior design. It has been fully published and awarded. Some examples include GardenHouse 0.96, Hotel Ciutat d’Igualada, and Façade-Steps Landscape of Manresa Town Hall, which was shown at On-Site: New Spanish Architecture, at the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006, and won the prestigious international Contractworld Award in Germany 2010. The firm also received the first “Annual Commercial Space Award” in China 2011 as well as a two-time winner of the prestigious Spanish FAD Award.