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José María Lozano, professor of architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de València, is the new president of the Consell Valencià de Cultura (CVC), an institution of which he has been a member since July 2011. The position had been vacant since the death of Santiago Grisolía on 4 August 2022. The President of the Generalitat is responsible for appointing, by decree, the President of the Consell Valencià de Cultura from among the members of this institution after a prior hearing with the members that comprise it.

'I am very honoured by the trust that the president has placed in me to reorganise the trajectory of the Consell Valencià de Cultura; it is an objective of the Generalitat. That is my obligation, and I accept it with satisfaction and with great determination,' said José María Lozano.

On the very morning of the publication of his appointment in the Official Journal of the Generalitat, José María Lozano already had his first formal conversation with the president of the Valencian Academy of Language, with the president of the Advisory Legal Council and with the president of the Economic and Social Committee and has set up meetings with the people in charge of ‘the Royal Academy of San Carlos, Lo rat penat, with the universities, as well as the IVAM, the Muvim and the Bancaja Foundation', among others, as he explained.

Looking forward to the appointment and full of energy, Lozano wants to prioritise the institutional agenda of the CVC and the statutory obligations of the institution over any other activity. This is his priority in the post, as well as promoting the production of reports and opinions, which he considers to have “declined over the last 15 years”.

Previous presidents of the Consell Valencià de Cultura

Lozano has been preceded in the role by the writer Juan Gil Albert (1986-1994), the art critic Vicente Aguilera Cerni (1994-1996) and the scientist Santiago Grisolía (1996-2022). Since Grisolía's death, the role has been held, in an acting capacity, by the editor, Dolors Pedrós.

Another professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Amparo Carbonell, has also been a member of the CVC since July 2018.

Public institution

The CVC is a public institution of the Valencian Regional Government. It comprises twenty-one members (currently 18), elected by a two-thirds majority of the Valencian Parliament and appointed by the President of the Regional Government from among people of relevant prestige or of recognised intellectual merit in the Valencian cultural sphere.

Its main task is to draw up reports and opinions and to carry out studies requested by public institutions in the Valencian Community. The current members, in addition to the president, are Dolors Pedrós, Jesús Huguet, Xavier Aliaga, Irene Ballester, Amparo Carbonell, Ascensión Figueres, Josefa Frau, Vicente González, Begoña Martínez, Gerardo Muñoz, José Vicente Navarro, Ana Noguera, Rosana Pastor, Maribel Peris, Vicent Torrent, Inmaculada Vidal and Núria Vizcarro.

Professor at the School of Architecture of the UPV

José María Lozano, born in Burgos in 1950, is Professor of Architectural Design at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Head of the Hiberseimer Laboratory, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Havana and the José Antonio Echeverría Higher Polytechnic Institute in Cuba. He has been a professor in the School of Architecture and on the Master's Degree in Advanced Architecture, Landscape, Urban Planning and Design at the UPV as well as on the Master's Degree in Home Automation at the University of Valencia.

He is the author of books, book chapters, numerous monographic articles, and just over 300 articles for the press. In addition, together with his daughter, he has directed the architecture and urban planning office Arquitectura Mediterránea Contemporánea (AMC), author of numerous award-winning and published projects, with special attention to social housing and sustainable architecture.

As for his urban planning work, he is the author of the Special Plan for the Marina de València and is a founding senior partner of a strategic consultancy for territorial and architectural management. He was the first Deputy Director of Culture at the School of Valencia and the first Head of the Architectural Projects Department at the UPV and the Centre for the Study of Advanced Technologies in Havana. He is currently building a low-cost housing model, using traditional materials and local labour in the state of Kerala, and teaches non-formal courses at architecture schools in Ahmedabad (India).

Carmen Revillo Rubio/ UPV Comunication Area