Carlos Plaza is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Seville. He was trained as an architect at the University of Seville and Florence (B.Arch and M.Arch, University of Seville, 2008) and received his PhD from both Universities in 2013, with a thesis on Florentine Renaissance Architecture. He has expanded his studies in other Italian institutions such as the CISA Palladio and also attended courses taught by professor Howard Burns at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. In 2015 he was Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and in 2016 he was postdoctoral fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz inside the project New Research on Local Renaissance (KHI-HistAntArtSI). His research interests focus on themes of the history of architecture from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, with special attention to Renaissance Architecture in Spain, Italy and America.