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Architect ETSAB (Barcelona High Technical Architectural School).
PHD (with honors) at the UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia).
Professor em. Dr. of Architecture and Design at the ETH-Zürich (Swiss Federal institute of Technology).
He has taught and lectured at leading academic and professional institutions around the world.
Member of l’Ordre des Architectes de Paris, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) in Zürich and the Catalan Professional Architectural Association (COAC) in Barcelona.
His practice, mateoarquitectura, is globally active and it aims to connect intelligence and artistic ambition with pragmatism and objectivity. It has been recently chosen as one of 100 world’s best architecture firms of 2019 by DOMUS Magazine.
His practice has won many prices and awards; his body of work has been worldwide published and exhibited.

Facts ( SP ED. )

Josep Lluís MateoVision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practice, also presented from a multilayered critic panel.

by mateo arquitectura Josep Lluís Mateo Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practice, also presented from a multilayered critic panel. Presenting architectural works at the time when they have been done is a critical question to understand, by specific practices, trends into our contemporarity. This book presents a full description of the projects by reelaborated materials (plans, texts, photos) producing a network able to transmit the qualities of the real architecture. Different contributions theoretical. Coming from preeminent academicians, expand the arguments passing from the single cases to a category. Buy English edition

Iconoclastia

Josep Lluís Mateo, ETHThe tradition of the Icon includes its antagonist; the Iconoclastic movement, which destroyed all representations of divinity by arguing that they destroyed its essence.

News from a post-iconic world Josep Lluís Mateo, ETH In the past, buildings and other constructions representing singular moments for the community were called monuments. Their origin was expression of power, celebration of ritual or collective affirmation. In the contemporary world, a project that aspires to be exceptionally expressive is commonly called an Icon. This book claims that star-architects and their “iconic” architecture are no longer valid today, as these projects are all driven by marketing machineries. Architecture should re-emerge as a credible artefact and fulfill the transcendent demands of our time. The publication begins with a series of general texts on themes that vary but all share a common critical look at the role of the iconic on the recent architecture scene. With contributions of Yannis Aesopos, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Isabel Concheiro, Sabine Von Fischer, Naoto Fukasawa, Hans Ibelings, Krunoslav Ivanisin, Alicia Guerrero Yeste, Fredy Massad, Daniel Kiss, Josep Lluís Mateo, Jasper Morrison,

Facts ( ENG ED. )

Josep Lluís MateoVision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practice, also presented from a multilayered critic panel

by mateo arquitectura Josep Lluís Mateo Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practice, also presented from a multilayered critic panel. Presenting architectural works at the time when they have been done is a critical question to understand, by specific practices, trends into our contemporarity. This book presents a full description of the projects by reelaborated materials (plans, texts, photos) producing a network able to transmit the qualities of the real architecture. Different contributions theoretical. Coming from preeminent academicians, expand the arguments passing from the single cases to a category. Buy Spanish edition

Global Housing Projects

Josep Lluís MateoThe world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing

25 buildings since 1980 Josep Lluis Mateo The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection of housing projects reflects the most innovative and influential built housing projects to propose new important guidelines in housing. EBOOK EDITION

Natural Metaphor

Josep Lluís MateoWritten by cross-disciplinary authors across Europe, Asia and America, this is a compilation of articles and images on using forms in nature for diverse design approaches and perspectives

An Anthology of Essays on Architecture and Nature Josep Lluís Mateo Written by cross-disciplinary authors across Europe, Asia and America, this is a compilation of articles and images on using forms in nature for diverse design approaches and perspectives. Nature has rendered poetic potential to stimulate, as a metaphor, the design process. From formal, conceptual, geometrical to literal engagements, the scope of potential correlations between nature and design is as far reaching as the human imagination. The Eth Zurich is a renowned European architecture institute. This is the third book in their acclaimed series.

Earth, Water, Air, Fire

Josep Lluis Mateo, Florian SauterThis research addresses the archaic or permanent conditions of architecture.

The Four Elements and Architecture Josep Lluis Mateo, Florian Sauter This research addresses the archaic or permanent conditions of architecture. According to Pre-Socratic tradition, since earliest times, when humankind began to analyse the universe, there was this important proposition lasting until today that nature and life are connected to the four principles of earth, water, air and fire. This thesis not only relates to basic conditions of man on earth, but also targets the fundamentals of architecture. Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building’s experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers – earth’s crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air’s thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundations, the roof shields from water, the openings control the flow of air, and the walls protect from

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