Alejandro Muñoz Miranda (Granada, 1974) Dr. Muñoz Miranda earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the School of Architecture in Granada. In 1999 he won the First National Final Project Prize from the Spanish Ministry of Education. From 2000 to 2003 he was the benefactor of a University Teaching Staff Research and Training Grant from the Ministry of Education. In 2002-2003 he moved to Columbia University to write his PhD Thesis under the supervision of Professor Kenneth Frampton. Finally, in 2011 he finished his PhD Thesis whose title is: “Using technique in architectural conception: towards a tectonic ethic” obtaining the qualification of “Sobresaliente Cum Laude”. He has been a professor of Architectural Projects since 2007, Deputy Director of International Relations from 2016 to 2020 and Deputy Director of Culture and Students from 2020 at the School of Architecture in Granada.
He was invited to exhibit in the Spanish Pavilion at the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale 2000, curated by Alberto Campo Baeza, and selected for the exhibition of “Young Architects of Spain”, organized by the Ministry of Housing of Spain in 2008, touring Europe and America. In 2013, his work was selected for the XII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and his thesis was a finalist in the IX Biennial Competition Aquia/Tesis of the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation. He obtained the “García de Paredes” Award 2005-2008 from the College of Architects of Granada for the best-built work. In 2018 he published the book “The Space Between Earth and Sky” with the publishers Nobuko and Diseño Editorial. In 2019 his work was a finalist in FAD Awards in Architecture Category. He was a finalist in the Dezeen Awards 2019 and the BIGMAT Awards 2019.
In 2020 he was awarded the Prize of the Architecture Awards of the College of Architects of Málaga for the best built work 2018-2020. In 2021, he was selected for the XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. In 2022, he obtained the ExAequo Mention of the “Carlos Pfeifer” Award from the Official College of Architects of Granada and his work was exhibited in Seoul at the Architecture Design Institute of Korea, on the occasion of the Spain-Korea Best Architecture Exhibition.
In 2024, he received the Andalusia Architecture Prize, awarded by the Junta de Andalucía in the “Construction and Innovation” category. Finally, he won and was a finalist in several national and international architectural competitions. His built work has been published in numerous national and international indexed journals and magazines such as METALOCUS, Arquitectura Viva, AV, 2G, On Diseño, Detail, Bauwelt, Domus, Mark, Speech, Arhitectura, AIT Magazine, AMC Le Moniteur, Plot and others, and in international books of architecture published by Gustavo Gili, Pencil, Loft, Links, Daab.
