William Rey Ashfield

William Rey Ashfield (born 11 March 1959 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan architect and architectural historian.

Career Graduated from the University of the Republic (UdelaR) in 1992, he also attended the Pablo de Olavide University in Spain, where he achieved the Magister in instruments for the assessment and management of the artistic heritage and afterwards a PhD in Art History and Cultural Heritage Management. and also at the University of Montevideo. Several of his articles can be found in university publications in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Belgium, Spain, Mexico, resulting of various investigations in the fields of urban history, architecture and cultural heritage.

In 2020-2025 he chaired the Committee on the National Artistic and Cultural Heritage.

Selected works

(with María de los Ángeles Fernández Valle and Francisco Ollero Lobato)