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Josep Lluís Mateo ©JordiBelver |
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| Education | Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
| Occupation | Architect at Mateo Arquitectura Professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z) |
Josep Lluís Mateo (1949, Barcelona) is a Spanish architect. Graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.
Mateo’s practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, a Complex of 100 housing units in Toulouse-Blagnac (France), The new Doctor Josep Trueta General Hospital, Girona (Spain), among others.
With each of his projects, Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms. He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.
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Outstanding works marking his career include: one of his first projects, the urban and pavement renewal of the Ullastret old city centre (1985. Girona, Spain), the head office of the Bundesbank in Chemnitz (1996, Germany), the construction of 26 housing units in Borneo (2000, Holland) and his intervention in the Barcelona Forum 2004 with the CCIB, Barcelona International Convention Centre, the 5-star AC hotel and the CZF office block. Josep Lluís Mateo developed the new branch image and layout for Banco Sabadell (2004), remodelled the bank’s historical head office (2006) and designed the entrance and main branch of its emblematic office block in Barcelona (2007–2010). His more recent work includes the new headquarters for Dutch pension fund PGGM in Zeist (2011, Holland), the Office Building “The Factory” in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (2010,France), the design of Largo da Devesa square in Castelo Branco (2006, Portugal), Sant Jordi Hall of Residence (2006, Barcelona) and the office building for WTC Almeda Park in Cornellà (2006, Barcelona).
Currently under construction are:
At the planning stage, after winning the corresponding national competitions, are, among others:
The practice’s work has been exhibited on numerous occasions thanks to its international influence.
Josep Lluís Mateo’s projects have formed part of group exhibitions on several occasions, as a result of the practice’s international influence. Recently, the New York’s MoMA devoted a space in the exhibition “Spain: On Site” to the apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project (2006). In 2009, the Pavillon de l’Arsénal in Paris included the current Boulogne-Billancourt project in its permanent exhibition “Paris, visite guidée” and Barcelona’s AC hotel in the show “The Invention of the European Tower”.
During 2010, his project for the Film Theatre of Catalonia has been presented at the National Glyptotheque in Athens, as part of the exhibition “A City called Spain” which will be exhibited in Moscow in a few months, in the context of the dual celebration of “Año de España en Rusia y el de Rusia en España”. Were also shown the projects for Doctor Trueta General Hospital (“Architecture for Health. 18 Years of Health-care Architecture in Catalonia. CatSalut 1991-2009”) and the women’s prison in Sant Llorenç d’Hortons (“Legal and Penitentiary Architecture”) at the COAC in Barcelona (Architects’ Institute of Catalonia). It has also been shown the project for the urban and pavement renewal of the Ullastret old city centre as part of the itinerant exhibition “Deux rues, une place”. Perpignan-Girona.
Individual exhibitions include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona, 2009), Architekturgalerie Aedes (Berlin, 2004), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, 1998), Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998), Galerie Fragner (Prague, 1998), Galerie Aedes (Berlin, 1994), Architekturgalerie Luzern (Luzern, 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich, 1991).
The work of Josep Lluís Mateo has been awarded many prizes, including:
Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002. Since 2008, he has been the President of the Board of Directors of the BIArch (Barcelona Institute of Architecture) He has also taught and lectured at numerous institutions around the world, including Princeton, Columbia University in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo and ITESM Mexico. He was Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992.
He has been a member of a number of juries and expert committees, including the Quality Committee of Barcelona City Council (2000-2008), and for prizes such as the European Landscape Award and the Thyssen Award.
Josep Lluís Mateo was editor-in-chief of the magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme from 1981 to 1990. During this period, the magazine received the following awards: ACCA, Laus, Barcelona City Awards and the International Union of Architects (UIA).
Books published by the Chair of Professor Mateo in ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich: