Javier Castañón has degrees from Manchester (BArch) Architectural Association (AA Dip) and Universidad de Granada, Spain (PhD) and has taught at the AA since 1978 and in other schools in the AA and abroad. He is a practicing architect in private practice as director of Castanon Associates (London) and Castañón Asociados (Madrid). His intersts are Innovation and invention in the process of the architectural project, reticulated and folding structures and reinforced ceramics.