Manuel Sanchez Garcia

Manuel Sánchez García is the first Ramón y Cajal fellow ever appointed at ETSAM-UPM, a position fully funded by the Spanish government through its most prestigious research program for emerging scholars. He previously held two other postdocs positions, one at ETSAM-UPM (2024-25) and another at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University, 2022-23), while receiving the HORIZON-MSCA Seal of Excellence under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship program (2024). He teaches courses on architectural composition, architectural history and urban history, while participating extensively in mentoring activities for graduate researchers and PhD candidates.

A licensed architect trained at Universidad de Granada (Spain, 2013), he holds an additional masters degree cum laude from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia, 2016), and two PhD cum laude titles, one in architectural history and project from Politecnico di Torino (Italy, 2022) and a second in art history from Universidad de Granada (Madrid, 2022). His PhD dissertation examined the foundational histories of early modern colonial cities across the Spanish empire through the combined analysis of plans and maps with notarial documents and lawsuit records, inaugurating a line of methodological development on Lawscapes studies. He also conducts research on Ibero-American modern architecture, and the depiction of architectural cultures and technologies in the videogame industry.

Highlighted in 2022 by SAH’s Members Stories, Manuel is a trans-national scholar contributing to the connection between European, Latin American, and North American academic institutions. Between 2021 and 2024 he served as Associate Editor of Architectural Histories, the open access journal of the European Architectural History Network. Since 2016 he has served as guest critic at institutions in Spain, Colombia, Chile, and the US, including the SMArchS, SMBT, and BSAD programs at MIT and Yale University’s MED program.