MAURICIO BERTET is a registered Architect from Madrid, Spain and an Architectural Design Professor at the Polytechnic School of the San Pablo - CEU University. Bertet recently taught at Syracuse University School of Architecture as Professor of Practice and currently holds the George N. Pauly, Jr Professorship in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. In his professional practice, he has focused on national competitions, projects and building follow-up, mainly in the public realm, proposing an architecture that has tried to modestly contribute to the improvement of the encountered reality. With the same approach, he has also developed international cooperation projects in Mozambique and Morocco.