Dr. Alejandro García Hermida is an architect and a professor of the pPractice at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has been a professor of the practice at the Alfonso X University, a visiting scholar at the School of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame and has lectured in a number of schools of architecture (Yale, Miami, Colorado, Kansas State, Liverpool, Polytechnic of Valencia, Polytechnic of Milano, and many others). He is the executive director and founder of the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation, from which he manages the initiatives that he implemented thanks to Richard H. Driehaus and the collaboration of INTBAU Spain and Portugal (Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, Building Arts Awards, Iberian Summer Schools, Donald Gray Apprenticeship Grants, Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, Spanish Network of Traditional Building Masters, etc). His architectural practice has been focused on traditional architecture and construction and the restoration and study of historic buildings, mainly in Spain and Morocco. He is a member of the board of the non-profit Terrachidia, founder and vice chair of INTBAU Spain and strategic advisor of Kalam Corporation in the US, of which he was formerly its CEO. Some of his works have been awarded the 2015 INTBAU Excellence Award, the 2019 Hispania Nostra Award, a special mention from the 2019 EU-Europa Nostra Awards, the 2021 Philippe Rotthier Architecture Prize and the 2021 Spanish National Award for Craftsmanship in the promotion category.