Manuel Bailo, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor in the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, will discuss his work for the Sam Fox School's Public Lecture Series. 

Bailo is co-founder, with Rosa Rull Bertran, of the award-winning firm Bailo + Rull | ADD + Arquitectura in Barcelona, Spain, which they launched in 1990. Over the years, the firm has completed numerous projects, ranging from single- and multi-family housing to commercial and government buildings to interior design and urban planning.

Recent projects include the Shared Water Pavilion, an 11,000-square-foot exhibition facility that was seen by 5.6 million visitors as part of EXPO 2008, the international exposition on water and sustainable development in Zaragoza, Spain. Their extensive renovations to the Manresa City Hall reorganized the historic 19th-century building's haphazard interior circulation while also replacing about a third of its decaying stone facade with boldly geometric, almost Cubist, wood and glass planes.

Other major projects include the dramatically cantilevered Garden House and the celebrated Hotel Ciudad d'Igualada, which won the First Azulejos de España Interior Design Prize in 2004, was shortlisted for the 2004 FAD Prize (Fomento de Artes Decorativas) for Catalan architecture, and was a finalist in the 2005 Spanish Architecture Biennial.

Bailo was born in Iqualada in the Barcelona region of Spain in 1965. After qualifying as an architect at the Barcelona School of Architecture, he earned both a master's degree and a doctorate at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He lectures at the Barcelona School of Architecture and at the Polytechnic School of Alicante.