Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme
Urtzi Grau is an architect and academic based in Sydney. He teaches at the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and is Editor-in-Chief of Quaderns. He is the founder of Urtzi Grau / Fake Industries, an architectural practice that explores the concept of the replica—understood both as the literal reproduction of existing works and as a response to prior statements, in the sense conveyed by Romance languages—as a method for architectural production.
Recent projects include the Biblioteca de Lorenteggio in Milan; Murrin Bridge Preschool and Bass Hill Community Centre in New South Wales; and the OE House in Tarragona. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, Lisbon Triennale, Istanbul Design Biennial, and Seoul Biennale, and is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Grau is the author of several books, including Analogue Images (Perimeter, 2024), Folk Costumes Indo Pacific Air (APE, 2022), Better Together: Stories of Contemporary Documents (URO, 2022), and Learning to Live Together: Humans, Cars, and Kerbs in Solidarity (Bartlebooth, 2021). He currently holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Portland State University’s School of Architecture and a Cullinan Visiting Professorship at Rice University School of Architecture.
