Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco (Barcelona, 1985) is a New York and Barcelona based architect, curator, and scholar. He was the chief curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 together with the After Belonging Agency, and he is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University, and a Critical Studies Helena Rubinstein Fellow 2017-18 at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Casanovas was trained as an architect at ETSABarcelona and the Edinburgh College of Art, and graduated from the MSc in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His design work has been recognized with several prizes, including the Simon Architecture Prize, and the Bauwelt Prize 2018, amongst others. His writings have appeared in several publications such as Volume, Research Movement Research Performance Journal, ARPA Journal or Plot. Casanovas is the recipient of several grants such as the La Caixa Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies, or the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant. He has collaborated with different design offices and research institutions as the Buell Center, and has taught studios at Barnard College, Princeton University, and ETSA Barcelona, and has lectured in different venues such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Harvard University or the University of Sydney.