Pepa Cassinello is a Madrid-based architect, current Director of the Eduardo Torroja Foundation and Titular Professor at the Department of Construction and Architectural Technologies of the Technical School of Architecture (ETSAM) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). In 2011 she founded the Alumni Association (ETSAM). She is specialist in construction and structural design of both historic and avant-garde buildings. She has been a guest speaker in; RIBA/Royal Institute of British Architects in London, EPFL/ École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, TU Berlin/ Technische Universität Berlin, Deutsche Museum Munich. She has been curator and author-editor of catalogue books; Eduardo Torroja Museum, Eduardo Torroja 1949.Strategy to industrialize Housing in post-World War II, Felix Candela Centenary, Ildefonso Sánchez del Río, Light Structures/sbp,The Spirit of an Idea in Print/ 60 years journal “Informes de la Construcción”.She has been awarded, between others by IASS/International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures and XIII BEAU Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.