Toni Gironès, Toni Gironès Saderra (born in Badalona, 1965) is an architect who graduated from the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV) in 1992. He earned his doctorate in 2016 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) with the thesis "Spontaneous Architectures: Reflections on Constants in Architecture: The Cap de Creus Peninsula, a Topography in Time."
He taught architectural design at ETSAV until 2005 and has since served as Head of Architectural Education at URV. He was also a professor and coordinator of the subjects Projects and Drawing I-II (2005–2011) and Projects and Urbanism II at the Reus School of Architecture – URV (2011–2012).
Since 1993, Gironès has worked as an independent architect. His work has received numerous accolades, including the Spanish Architecture Award in 2019 for the Climate Museum in Lleida, as well as recognition at the IX and VIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism for the Transmitter Space at the Dolmen of Seró and the 80 Social Housing Units in Salou, respectively. Among other honors, he has been awarded the Young Architects of Catalonia Award (1996), FAD Award (2007), Puig i Cadafalch Award (2011), Bonaplata Award for the Restoration of Historic Buildings (2011), and more. In 2013, the Swiss Architecture Museum (SAM) in Basel dedicated a monographic exhibition to his work, titled "Space and Matter: Life and Place."
He was a professor at ETSAV from 1993 to 2005 and later at the Reus School of Architecture at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), where he also took on academic coordination and management roles. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a board member and professor at BIARCH – Barcelona Institute of Architecture.
