Fran Silvestre is a Spanish architect. He graduated with a degree in architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia in 2001 and specialized in urban planning at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. A close collaborator of the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Álvaro Siza, he founded Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in 2005. He is also a professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia and the Universidad Europea. Philip Jodidio is a specialist in contemporary architecture and was editor in chief of the French art monthly Connaissance des Arts for more than twenty years. He is the author of over 100 books on architecture and art.