Fernando Vegas is an architect (UPV Valencia) and professor at the Universitat Politècnica of València (Spain). He has been guest lecturer in the universities of Venice, Palermo, Cordoba (Argentina) and UPenn (Philadelphia, USA) and has given lectures in many other universities. He has received international awards for his work on architectural conservation. Among other monuments, he has developed conservation projects for the Alhambra of Granada and for the Finca Güell of Barcelona by Gaudí. He is editor of the journal Loggia, coordinator of the UNESCO Unitwin Chair for Earthen Architecture in Spain and has extensively published on architectural heritage.