Angela López Sabater is an architect specialized in heritage. She coordinates heritage education projects at ARAE Patrimonio y Restauración, where she designs educational workshops aimed at promoting the historical value of neighborhoods and heritage buildings. She is a researcher and co-author of architectural heritage studies and works that link the 17 Sustainable Development Goals with heritage, published in scientific journals. She also promotes social projects for heritage recovery, such as “HA del Castillo!!” and “El perfecto engranaje de las comunidades patrimoniales,” and is the author of numerous materials related to #ODSpatrimonio.
In 2012 she received the Europa Nostra Awards for the study of the Palauet Nolla in Meliana (Spain) in the research category. In 2019 she obtained the European Heritage Days Stories award for the cultural programming at Palauet Nolla, and in 2024 for the heritage education project on the stained-glass windows of the Jesuit Church of Valencia, “La geometría de la luz”. In 2021 she mentored the project “And now what?”, carried out together with children from La Encina (Alicante, Spain), which won the European Heritage Makers award. She is a member of ICOMOS-Spain, coordinating activities within the Participation and Heritage Education Commission. She is also part of the SDG WG–ICOMOS International working group, where she participated in activities presented at Mondiacult 2025. Since 2026 she is a member of Task Team 3 within the SDGWG on “National Liaisons and Localizing Heritage and the SDGs.”.
She was a lecturer in the qualifying Master’s Degree in Architecture at the European University of Valencia in the module on Heritage and Comprehensive Rehabilitation (2018–2021). She has also been a guest lecturer in the Master’s Degree in Conservation of Architectural Heritage at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and in the advanced course Culture and Development
