Miguel Guitart, PhD

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
mguitart@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 313 - 716-829-5931

Miguel Guitart is an architect, author, and academic. He serves as assistant professor with the the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His research focuses on architectural experience at the intersection of material narratives and sensory perception with a focus on physical boundaries, material memory, and non-material agents.

Guitart received his Ph.D. in Architecture from ETSAM, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and his M.Arch II from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University as a J. W. Fulbright Scholar. He received previous B.Arch and M.Arch degrees from ETSAM.

He has taught at the Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR, 2013-2014), Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca Campus Madrid (UPSAM, 2006-2014), and the Boston Architectural Center (BAC, 2002-2003), and lectured at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM, 2013, 2012, 2010), ESNE-UCJC (2011, 2012), and the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University (2014).

He has published articles in the Journal of Architectural Education, Technology, Art + Design, City, Territory and Architecture, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, Revista Arquitectura RA, Rita Red Fundamentos, Constelaciones, and Radar, among other journals.

He is the author of Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference (Routledge, 2022) and The Depth of the Skin (Asimetricas, 2015), and editor of Approaching Architecture: Three Fields, One Discipline (Routledge, 2023) and the four volumes of Architectural Practice book series (Nobuko, 2014-2020).

Guitart has been awarded by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), AZ Awards in Canada, the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), the Alejandro de la Sota Biennial Award, and the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.

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Miguel Guitart investigates the architectural filter and its experiential dynamics in latest book
4/22/22
UB architecture professor Miguel Guitart has published a book exploring the spectrum of experiences created by one of the most important of architectural thresholds: its openings to the exterior world.
Building blocks
6/22/21
Students in the Department of Architecture’s Material Culture research seminar last semester, under the direction of Miguel Guitart, assistant professor of architecture, explored ground-related architecture, focusing on mass, material recirculation and the relationships between construction and the land on which it sits. The installation is scheduled to remain on-site for two years as part of a study of its decay and erosion over time. Photos: Douglas Levere
Summer study abroad 2019
9/6/19
This summer, dozens of students from across UB fanned across three continents as part of the School of Architecture and Planning's annual study abroad program.
Studio explores materials and boundaries through wooden cages
7/19/18
In a spring 2018 Material Culture Graduate Research Group Design Studio, titled “Cages,” students were given the opportunity to study architecture through material exploration and manipulation—specifically, through wooden cages.
Study abroad program takes students throughout Spain
6/26/18
UB architecture professor Miguel Guitart recently kicked off an exciting study abroad program in Madrid with a lecture series that will put students face to face with top practitioners, scholars and design thinkers from across Spain.
Özay and Guitart win national education awards
2/14/17
An architecture studio on refugee housing and newly built church and parish center in Madrid have earned two UB architecture faculty members national recognition as inspiring educators who creatively engage architectural practice and extend their work into the public sector.
Students take in all of Madrid on study abroad
7/22/16
A group of 12 students are immersed in the landscape of Spain's historic capital of Madrid as part of a new study abroad program that combines intense production with daily "seeing and drawing" tours and cultural experiences.
Faculty play lead role in echo Art Fair's inaugural architecture exhibition
5/23/16
The 2016 echo Art Fair in Buffalo, a fine arts exposition that has emerged as one of the region’s most notable art events, opens this weekend with its first-ever architecture exhibition, “Light Industry.”
Spanish Church Design by Miguel Guitart is Expression of Matter, Light and Scale
2/12/16
Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture Miguel Guitart’s research on matter, light, and perception is spatially explored in his firm’s ongoing real-world architecture project: the new Santa Maria Church and Parish Center in Tarragona, Spain.
Miguel Guitart Releases New Publication in a Series on Architectural Practice
10/30/15
Architecture faculty member Miguel Guitart is co-editor of the just-released Architectural Practice II, the second publication in a series exploring how practicing, researching and teaching architects reflect on the early stages of their design.
Filters of Gaze and Light
9/2/15
"The Depth of the Skin" by Miguel Guitart explores the architectural skin and human experiences within.

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Architectural Practice, Volumes I-III
1/5/17
Across three volumes, this series of texts curated by UB assistant professor of architecture Miguel Guitart and Madrid architect Daniel Gimeno documents twenty texts and twenty visions, twenty teaching methods and twenty ways of designing. The collection of texts illumnates practicioners visions, teaching methods and ways of designing, and transports the reader to an intimate place which has inspired the works of some of the most outstanding architects of our time.
Cages
6/1/18
The work in Cages explores the qualities of material boundaries and enclosing conditions that relate structure and skin, establishing critical connections between the natural and the artificial in the material experience.
Terra cotta grotto
3/20/19
“Terra-Cotta Grotto” is a design intervention constructed with standard terracotta extrusions that explores the spatial, material, structural and ecological conditions of a grotto.
Church and Parish Center Santa Maria Assumpta
9/1/15
The project for the new Santa Maria Parish Center in Bonavista offers a specific solution to the needs of the program and the liturgy taking as a starting point two premises recurrent throughout the history of the Catholic Church: monumentality and mystery.
Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate
11/20/23
Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, voices, and geographies represented to provide a more comprehensive and contemporary theory book.

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