Josep Muntañola is a distinguished architect and professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He graduated with a degree in architecture in 1963 and earned his doctorate in 1968 from the Barcelona School of Architecture, where he served as director between 1980 and 1984. Additionally, he was the director of the Department of Architectural Projects from 1985 to 1992.

Muntañola has held several prestigious positions throughout his career, including president of the International Association of Anthropology of Space in 1988, president of the International Association of Semiotics of Space from 2000 to 2006, and president of Action Cost C2 of the European Commission from 1988 to 1999. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi since 2003.

He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, during two separate periods (1970-1973 and 1984-1988). Currently, Muntañola is an academic and editor of the magazine Arquitectonics: Mind, Land, Society, and a professor at Plataforma Formación.