Manu is master architect by the University of Granada and master in historical construction technology by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Born in a small town of La Mancha region, by 2008 he moved to Granada to study the architecture degree, where he also managed an urban photography course and worked as editor of an international arts and architecture magazine.
After finishing in 2015 he did an overseas university program in the Yokohama National University in Japan. From 2016 he worked as architect in the architecture office of the University of Castilla La Mancha, doing several projects in cities as Toledo, Cuenca, Albacete and Ciudad Real until 2018. During this period he did a master course in historical construction technology in Madrid with a final thesis based on the islamic decorative technique of the "mocárabes".
In May of 2018 he got his official guiding licence and stablished his own architecture studio, working since then in the andalusian territory as guide and on his own projects and with worldwide teams as architect. He has been invited as guest lecturer in different universities and schools around Spain and Europe. During the pandemic in 2020 he did several courses about visualization technology in restoration and architecture and got a third master degree in teaching by the University of Granada. Apart from the academic work Manu also loves painting, having some realism-rooted works in different exhibitions in Andalucía, and enjoys flamenco, traditional gastronomy, literature, history and traditional spanish white carpentry.