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Luis M. Mansilla (1959 in Madrid – 2012 in Barcelona), was a Spanish architect. He graduated from the E.T.S.A.M. on 1982, and obtained the Ph. degree on 1998. In 1984 he grants the boarding for the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome, and in 1987 obtains the Swedish Institute Scholarship, living in Stockholm. In 1992, Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón establish the architecture firm Mansilla + Tuñón Architects, office dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice and design and building activity. They received the Spanish Architecture Award in 2003 and 2017, and the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2007.
Luis Mansilla was full professor in the Architecture School of Madrid and has been visiting professor in Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and School of Architecture, Princeton University.
