Daniel Ibáñez is a practicing architect and urbanist. He is Doctor of Design at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University and he is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). His focus is on the architectural and urban implications of timber construction. He is coauthor of the book ''Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial'' (Actar, 2019) and coauthor and director of several award-winning. He holds a MArch from ETSAM in Madrid, a Master in Advanced Architecture (MAA) from IAAC, and an MDes in Urbanism, Landscape has taught at numerous international universities and he ''New Geographies'' and researcher at the Harvard Office for Urbanization.