Urtzi Grau

Urtzi Grau is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney. He is an architect and academic with a PhD candidacy at Princeton University School of Architecture, focusing on 1970s Barcelona urban renewal.

• Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UTS
• PhD Candidate in Architecture at Princeton University

His research examines architecture's role in addressing Indo-Pacific challenges like climate justice, immigration, land rights, and extractive economics. The work spans speculative, pragmatic, and historical projects, including the Graham Foundation Grant-winning Indo Pacific and collaborative Driverless Vision with Rice University.

Recent publications include the 2024 Analogue Images book on architectural representation and the 2023 Skanderbeg, Tirana article analyzing modernist architectural fragments. His creative works have been exhibited internationally at Venice Biennale, Chicago Architectural Biennial, and others.

• 2022 FAD Pensamiento y Critica Award
• 2017 Alejandro de la Sota Award

He has supervised research-based degrees at UTS, including the 2022 Entangled Histories thesis. He teaches architectural history, theory, and design studios.