Juan Palop-Casado
jpalop@lpastudio.net
Juan Palop-Casado (Valencia, 1967) is an architect and urbanist. He studied at the schools of Las Palmas (Spain), Oxford Brookes (UK), and Harvard (USA), where he graduated with a Master in Design Studies (MDesS). He is an expert in sustainable urbanism and a BREEAM Communities assessment auditor.
He is the founder and director of LPA Studio, a multidisciplinary and award-winning office practising territorial, urban, and landscape projects. Drawing on its nature-based approach, its field of action is concentrated in southern geographies (arid, semiarid, and Mediterranean), where LPA Studio has developed a singular design methodology to regenerate their social and environmental dynamics and patterns. They called it: biourbanism for the sunny side of the planet.
In parallel to his leading role at LPA Studio, he is the cofounder and president of the Instituto20grados foundation, a research and prototyping unit that explores biocentric ways of inhabiting the global South at this moment of climate emergency, social vulnerabilities and biodiversity loss.
Explore his projects and publications at www.lpastudio.net
