Dr. Federico Wulff

Federico is a Reader in Architecture Design and Urban Design at the WSA, a European researcher, and an award-winning practitioner. He is also the Course Director of the Masters of Architecture Design (MA AD). Federico graduated from the ETSAM (Madrid, Spain) in 1998. In 2007/2008, he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture by the Royal Spanish Academy of Rome. He owns a European PhD (Doctor Europaeus), which he completed during his year in Rome at Roma Tre University (Italy) and the ETSAM School of Architecture of Madrid (Spain) and was supervised at Paris-Belleville University (France). He has been recently awarded the Europa Nostra Grand Prix 2019 and the Europa Nostra 2019, the most prestigious European award in Heritage preservation, for his restoration of the Oratory of the Partal Palace, a 14th C. Mosque in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Alhambra (Granada, Spain).

His work in the UK began in 2012 when he was a Visiting Teacher at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. Then, in March 2013, he joined the WSA as a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (IEF) Postdoctoral Senior Researcher leading the EMUVE European Project. His European research project, EMUVE (Euro-Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) was funded by the European Commission with 220,000 Euros. EMUVE focuses on searching for innovative design methodologies for re-activating urban landscapes in crisis, from the 2008 Economic downturn to the current migrant and refugee crisis.

His practice, W+G Architects, has been awarded 10 first prizes in International Architecture competitions. His projects have addressed a wide range of issues, from public spaces (Eras, Forum) and heritage (Restoration of a 14th. C. mosque in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Alhambra, Spain) to cooperation projects in developing countries (Ethiopia, Morocco), funded by the Spanish Cooperation and Development Agency (AECID).