Description
Internationally known for his labors as head of the famous magazine Quaderns between 1981 and 1990, Josep Lluís Mateo has never abandoned his professional practice as an architect, building not only in Spain, but in various European countries, an activity he currently combines with teaching at the ETH in Zurich.
This monographic issue presents his most recent projects and buildings. Among his built works are the housing block on Borneo Island (Amsterdam), two groups of apartments in Barcelona, a covered swimming pool in Girona, and the Barcelona International Convention Center, due to be inaugurated in 2004. This number features essays by such prestigious international critics as Wilfried Wang, Ákos Moravánszky, Manuel Delgado, Aaron Betsky and Ignasi de Solà-Morales, and is complemented by a conversation with Iñaki Ábalos, a text by Mateo himself, “In Globalization and photos taken especially for this issue by Xavier Ribas.
CONTENTS
Work and Projects
- Wilfried Wang: Conjunctions: Architecture as the Art of the Fugue
- – Housing Block on Borneo Island Amsterdam The Netherlands
- Ákos Moravánszky: The Skin of a Fossil. On Bundesbank Project in Chemnitz
- – New Headquarters for the Deutsche Bundesbank Chemnitz Germany
- – Leisure Centre with Hotel Casino Conference Hall and Park Ascona Switzerland
- Manuel Delgado: Limit and Construction
- – Social Housing El Prat de Llobregat Barcelona Spain
- – La Maquinista Housing Barcelona Spain
- – Lille Twice Over France
- – Covered Public Swimming Pool Girona Spain
- Aaron Betsky: Some Fictions about the Big Fact: Barcelona Convention Centre
- – Barcelona International Convention Centre Spain
- Xavier Ribas: Three Views from/of a Suspended Space
- – New Headquarters for the North-Holland Provincial Council Haarlem The Netherlands
- – Cultural Centre Castelo Branco Portugal
- – BEIC European Library Milan Italy
- Ignasi de Solà-Morales: Daedalus and Ariadne
- – Family House in Majorca
Biography
Nexus
- Josep Lluís Mateo: In Globalization
- A Conversation with Iñaki Ábalos
144 pages color ills / 23 x 30 cm / English Spanish
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