Oscar Linares de La Torre

Oscar Linares is a PhD Architect and Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB–UPC), where his teaching and research focus on the integration of architectural design with technology, construction and materiality.

Over the past two decades, he has been involved in more than 150 architectural projects and international competitions, over fifty of which have received awards or been shortlisted, and twenty-eight have been built. Throughout his professional career, he has collaborated with leading national and international architectural practices, including Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos and OAB – Office of Architecture in Barcelona (Carlos Ferrater Partnership), among others, contributing to residential, corporate, healthcare, sports and large-scale public projects.

Alongside his professional practice, he has developed an active academic career as a visiting professor, visiting critic and lecturer at more than fifteen international schools of architecture, including ETH Zürich, the Master in Collective Housing (ETH–ETSAM), TU Munich, London Metropolitan University and TU Graz.

His research and knowledge-transfer activities focus on architectural design, technological innovation and the relationship between project, technique and construction. He has published more than sixty papers, books and book chapters on architectural theory and practice, and understands professional practice, research and teaching as complementary fields through which architectural knowledge is produced, critically examined and disseminated.