Biography
Josep Gómez Serrano is an architect and professor specializing in structural analysis and Gaudí’s work. Currently, he holds the position of professor of structures at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC).
He graduated in 1973 and is a Professor of Structures II in the Department of Structures of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). Since 1986, he has been part of the construction team of the Sagrada Familia, the temple designed by Antoni Gaudí. With Jordi Faulí i Oller, they collaborate on the structural analysis of Gaudí’s temple, incorporating new technologies (CAD, computer simulation, 3D images) to prepare a virtual plan of the temple that allows recreating down to the last detail the project prepared by Gaudí and carrying out execution. He has written various informative books on Gaudí’s work: as author, “L’obrador de Gaudí” (1996); as co-author, “From Gaudí to CAD” and “Gaudí invisible” (2003). He was the architectural curator of the Gaudí exhibition “The Search for Form” (2002).
