Javier Lahuerta is an Architect since july 2005, when graduated in Eindhoven and Valencia, and PhD in Design & Architecture since 2017. Over 9 years, he specialised at Foster + Partners (London) in High-end Construction, Design and Quality in the built environment, in a wide range of projects, from Apple flagship stores to airports and train stations, office buildings, residential ones, and others, all on the top tier of performance, design and quality. 2021-2023 - Since September 2021, he works as Professor of building construction and interior design at CEU Cardenal Herrera International University in Valencia. 2021-2023 - Between Jan 2021- Feb 2023, he was Head of Technical Design & Deputy Sales Manager at Sanahuja&Partners, also advising on R&D, marketing + CRM and HR. 2017 - Since 2017, Javier is PhD, specialised in construction & design language & communication in architecture. 2013-2020 - Before Dec 2020 Javier was an Associate Partner at Foster + Partners in London, where he worked as Technical Design Advisor and Quality Auditor in F+P's Construction Review Group where, under Paul Kalkhoven's mentoring and direction, he researched, collected know-how within the practice and advised Foster+Partners' teams on the detailing of construction systems, materials, and design standards, together with regulation compliance, across multiple international projects. 2013-2015 & 2007-2008 - Before 2015, he worked for Foster + Partners as an architect on projects such as the Bloomberg Square HQ, Bilbao Metro Line 3 and Masdar University, covering for some time all design stages, from concept to onsite coordination with consultants and contractors. 2009-2013 - Before 2013, Javier run his own practice in partnership with Pascual Mata, who was in the business for more than 30 years. They mainly developed residential schemes, from concept to completion. In 2017, Javier received his "cum laude" PhD in architectural design from Universitat Jaume I, (Spain), at the department of engineering of design and industrial systems. His dissertation consisted of a research about "emotion in Norman Foster's design language", to show the relationships between emotion, thinking, and construction syntax in the architect´s works, based on the latest neuroscientific and non-verbal linguistics and communication studies. Lord Foster was very impressed by Javier's work and the primary thesis behind it, he found it revelatory and truly insightful, and highly commended the research and conclusions. Today, apart from buildings, cities and building construction, Javier's main interest is the relationship between design and personal and material quality, as a holistic and humanistic approach to architecture, to sustainable wealth and well-being for all.