Federico Wulff Barreiro (born July 21, 1972, in Granada, Spain) is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Architecture and Urban Design at the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), a European-funded senior researcher, and an award-winning practitioner in contemporary architectural design and heritage preservation. He holds both the Europa Nostra Grand Prix 2019 and the Europa Nostra 2019 awards for the restoration of the 14th-century Palatine Mosque of the Oratory of the Partal Palace in the Alhambra of Granada (Spain), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Europa Nostra Grand Prix, promoted by the European Commission (EU), is the most prestigious award in architectural heritage at the European level. The Alhambra UNESCO World Heritage Site is a world-renowned heritage site in Spain and one of the most visited worldwide.
He has received the Rome Prize in Architecture from the Royal Spanish Academy of Rome (RAER). He has co-authored five books, nine book chapters, and over 30 articles in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals in international architecture and urban design, such as Urban Design International (UK), Metalocus (Spain), Agathon (Italy), Urban Design and Planning (UK), Built Heritage (China), Paisea (Spain), C3 (Korea), L'Architecture du Maroc (Morocco), and Arquitectura Ibérica (Portugal), among others.
His design, research, and teaching work have been exhibited at 21 international exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Chile, Italy, Morocco, and Brazil, including the Landscape Architecture Biennales of Barcelona (Spain) and São Paulo (Brazil). His EMUVE (Euro-Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) European research project was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. He is the Course Director of the Postgraduate Master of Architecture Design (MA AD) at the WSA.
His practice, W + G Arquitectos, founded in 2007, has been awarded ten 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-century mosque in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Alhambra, Spain) to cooperation projects in developing countries (Ethiopia, Morocco), funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
