Daniel Ibáñez is a Spanish practicing architect, urbanist and scholar. He holds a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University GSD where he has spent the last 12 years studying, researching and teaching. Daniel is the director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and co-founder and director of Urbanitree. His professional, research and academic focus is on the architectural and urban implications of renewable, carbon storing biomaterials in construction. Among other things, Daniel is building Terraces for Life, the tallest social housing mass timber building in Spain, he is the co-author of Mass is More installation at the Mies van der Rohe pavilion and co-author of the book Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar, 2019). Additionally, he is Senior Urban Consultant at the World Bank, advising international governments and institutions on timber housing and timber urban development.