1. Work

2. Exhibitions and Prizes

3. Academic collaborations and teaching

4. Publications
    Monographs  Books 

5. External Resources

6. References

Josep Lluís Mateo (born 1949 in Barcelona) is architect since 1974 and PhD (cum laude) since 1994 at the UPC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He was Professor of Architecture and Projects at the ETH-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Polytechnic).

Mateo's practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as a Complex of 100 housing units in Toulouse-Blagnac (France), the remodelling of El Ninot marketplace in Barcelona,the remodelling of the urban front of the river Adour in Bayonne (France), the master plan for the Pôle Multimodal Nice-Aéroport quartier d'affaires Grand Arénas in Nice (France), among others.

Mateo presents himself "as someone who 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". His projects respond to the strategy of applying the palette of corporative architecture to mainly European sites.

Work

He has been awarded the A+ Prize 2011 of Ullastret (Santander Biennale Prize 1991). His most important building designs are Housing on Borneo Island in Amsterdam (CEOE Prize 2001), the head office of the Bundesbank in Chemnitz (2004), the Forum 2004 complex in Barcelona, the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB), Hotel AC and the CZF office block, the Sant Jordi student residence (Archizinc Prize 2008) and the WTC Almeda Park office building in Cornellà (A+ Prize for Work Architecture 2010). He has also developed the new branch image and layout for Banc 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), “The Factory” in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (NAN Prize 2010, TPI Group), the extension of the office building of PGGM insurance company in Zeist, Holland (NAN Prize 2011, TPI Group) and the new Film Theatre of Catalonia (2011, Barcelona).

Currently under construction are:

• Remodelling of El Ninot marketplace in Barcelona (2009-under construction. First prize, public competition)

At the planning stage, after winning the corresponding national competitions, are, among others:

• Master plan for the Pôle Multimodal Nice-Aéroport quartier d'affaires Grand Arénas in Nice, France (First Prize, restricted competition 2011)
• Complex of 100 housing units in Toulouse-Blagnac, France (First Prize, restricted competition 2010)
• Remodelling of the urban centre and complex building in Bassins-à-flots in Bordeaux, France (First Prize, invited competition 2010)
• Remodelling of the urban front of the river Adour in Bayonne, France (First Prize, invited competition, 2006)
• Dr Josep Trueta General Hospital in Girona, Spain (First Prize, invited competition, 2006)
• Women's prison in St. Llorenç d’Hortons, Barcelona (First Prize, invited competition, 2005)
• Auditorium and Contemporary Art Center in Castelo Branco, Portugal (First Prize, restricted competition, 2000)

Exhibitions and Prizes

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, the National Glyptotheque in Athens presented his project for the Film Theatre of Catalonia, as part of the exhibition “A City called Spain”. At the COAC in Barcelona (Architects’ Institute of Catalonia) showed 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”).

Active exhibitions in 2011:

• “A City called Spain”, project: Film Theatre of Catalonia, organized by: SEACEX (Spanish Foreign Office) at the Central House of Artists in Moscow.
• "Deux rues, une place", project: Ullastret, organized by French Conseil Géneral 66 and the Catalan Government at the Chapel Nostre Senyora del Àngels of Perpignan for a first phase and at the Casa de la Cultura in Girona for a second phase.
• “Spanish Contemporary Architecture”, project: Dr. Trueta Hospital. Organized by the Spanish Embassy in Panama at the Museo del Canal Interoceánico.

Individual exhibitions about the work of Josep Lluís Mateo include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona, 2009), Architekturgalerie Aedes (Berlin, 2004), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, 1998), Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998), Galerie Fragner (Prague, 1998), Galerie Aedes (Berlin, 1994), Architekturgalerie (Lucerne, 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich, 1991).

His body of work has been awarded many prizes, including:

• IV NAN 2011 TPI Group Award. First Prize. Best Spanish project abroad category. Project: New headquarters of the Insurance Company PGGM in Zeist (Holland)
• Arquitectura Plus Award 2011-Grupo Vía. Mr. Josep Lluís Mateo awarded for the most outstanding career.
• IV Premios NAN 2010 TPI Group Award, First Prize. Best Spanish project abroad category. Project: La Factory office building in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris)
• Premio Aplus 2010, Grupo Vía. First Prize. Aplus Award for office building architecture category. Project: WTC office building in Cornellà, Barcelona
• Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008, First Prize. Best International Convention Centre category. Organized by C&IT magazine, London. Project: CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre
• 2008 Archizinc Award, First Prize. Collective Housing category. Project: Sant Jordi Students’ Hall of Residence, Barcelona
• Contract World 2006. Second Prize. Hotels category. Project: AC Hotel for the Barcelona Forum 2004
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, Runner-up. Project: CCIB- Barcelona International Convention Centre
• Premios FAD 2005. Finalist. Architecture category. Project: CCIB - Barcelona International Convention Centre
• Spanish Architecture Biennial 2005. Finalist. Project: CCIB – Barcelona International Convention Centre
• Prize for the Best Work 1997-2001 - Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Baleares. First Prize. Single-family residence category. Project: Single-family residence in Artà, Majorca
• 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura and the CEOE Foundation 2001, First Prize. Project: 26 Housing Units in Borneo Docks, Amsterdam, Holland
• 1991 Spanish Architecture Biennial in Santander, among the best Spanish architecture projects of the ‘80s. Project: Development of the medieval town of Ullastret in Girona, Spain
• 1991 ITALSTAT Award for Young European Architects

Academic collaborations and teaching

Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of Architecture and Projects at the ETH-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) since 2002. Since 2011, he has been Vice President of Arquiberia (International Association of Spanish Architects) and, since 2010, a founder member of the Cercle de Cultura (Culture Circle) in Barcelona. He has been a lecturer at numerous universities, and taught at the world's foremost institutions, including Princeton, Columbia University in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, Arkitektforening, Oslo and ITESM Mexico. He has also been Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center (Los Angeles, United States).

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.

Publications

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 (1981), Laus ADG (1981), Barcelona City Awards (1984), Laus (1985) and the International Union of Architects (UIA) (1990).

Monographs

• On Building. Matter and Form, Josep Lluis Mateo Ediciones Polígrafa (Barcelona, 2012)
• Occasions, Josep Lluis Mateo Ed. Actar (Barcelona, 2009)
• Josep Lluís Mateo, Opere e progetti, Electa (Milan, 2007)
• Josep Lluís Mateo, Works, Projects and Writings, Ediciones Polígrafa (Barcelona, May 2005)
• CCIB. Josep Lluís Mateo. MAP Architects, ACTAR (Barcelona, December 2004)
• Organic versus Inorganic. Catalogue of the exhibition in the Aedes Gallery, Berlin (June 2004)
• Josep Lluís Mateo, World Architecture, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China, 2003)
• Josep Lluís Mateo, Recent Work, 2G, Gustavo Gili. (Barcelona, 2003)
• MATEO ATLAS, ACTAR, Ministerio de Fomento and COAC (Barcelona, 1998)
• Mateo-Matrix. Catalogue of the exhibition at the IAAS, Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies (Hamburg, Germany, May 1996)
• Housing, Josep Lluís Mateo, “Arquitecturas de Autor” collection, ETSAUN (Pamplona, 1996)
• Ideen und Bauten, Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel, 1995)
• Ideas on Building. Video by Henryk Gajewski, Berlage Institute Amsterdam (Netherlands, November 1994)
• Josep Lluís Mateo. Zwei Jahre-Zwei Zeiten 1993-1994. Catalogue of the exhibition at Aedes Gallery (November 1994)
• Josep Lluís Mateo, "Catálogos de Arquitectura Contemporánea" collection, Gustavo Gili (Barcelona, 1992)
• Schichten. Catalogue of the exhibition “José Luis Mateo, Map Architects”, Architekturgalerie Luzern (Switzerland, 1992)
• Map Architects. Catalogue of the exhibition “Kreuzungen-Forschungen und Objekte”. Architekturgalerie EV, Munich, 1991. Dragados y Construcciones (Barcelona, 1991)

Books

• Textos instrumentales. Josep Lluís Mateo. GG (Barcelona, 2007)
• Bauen und Denken. Josep Lluís Mateo. Quart Verlag (Luzern, Switzerland, 2002)

Books published by the Chair of Professor Mateo in ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich:

• After Crisis. Contemporary Architectural Conditions. Architectural papers V. MATEO, José Luis; and other authors. Ed. Lars Müller Publishers - ETH Zürich, 2010.
• Iconoclastia. News from a Post-Iconic World. Architectural Papers IV. Ed. ETH - Actar, 2009
• Global Housing Projects. Ed. ETH - Actar, 2008
• Natural Metaphor. Architectural Papers III. Ed. ETH - Actar, 2007
• Big Scale. Grossform. Architectural Papers II. Ed. ETH - Gustavo Gili, 2006
• Object Laboratory. Architectural Papers I. Ed. ETH – Gustavo Gili, 2005
• Natur und Abstraktion. Josep Lluís Mateo. ETH-Zurich 1993-94. Ed. Actar 1995

External Resources

• [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mateoarquitectura] Pics on Flickr
•   Mateo Arquitectura's web page

References

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