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THE ARCHITECT: JOSEP LLUIS MATEO Barcelona-born (1949) Josep Lluis Mateo graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994. He has been Professor of the Architecture and Projects Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002. He has also taught at various universities and lectured at foremost international academic institutions. He was Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992. In 2009, Josep Lluis Mateo was named President of the Board of Directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture. Josep Lluis Mateo, architect: photo: Jordi Belver Josep Lluis Mateo entered into association with Marta Cervello in 1995, since when they have directed the practice together. Featured Projects Banc de Sabadell Atlantic, Barcelona, Spain 2007 photo © Pedro Pegenaute Banc de Sabadell Atlantic Free Zone Consortium Office Building, Diagonal Mar, Barcelona, Spain 2002 (Edifici d'oficines pel Consorci de la Zone France) photo © Adrian Welch Free Zone Consortium Office Recent work - Selection The head office of the Bundesbank in Chemnitz, Germany (First Prize, international competition) 1996-2004 Barcelona International Convention Centre (First Prize, international public competition) 2000-04 Banc Sabadell : Standard office (First Prize, invited competition) 2002; renovation of the bank's historical head office in Placa Sant Roc, Sabadell, 2004-06; interventions in the bank's Torre Diagonal in Barcelona, 2009 Sant Jordi Hall of Residence (First Prize, national public competition) 2001-06 Largo da Devesa park in Castelo Branco, Portugal. 2000-07 Office building for WTC Almeda Park in Cornella, Barcelona (First Prize, invited competition) 2004-07 Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona (First Prize, national invited competition) 2005-10 Extension of the office building for PGGM insurance company in Zeist, Holland (First Prize, international invited competition) 2002-10 The office building in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (First Prize, invited competition) 2006-10 Model of the project for the new Camp Nou: Camp Nou Stadium Model of the hotel in Shanghai, included in the installation: At the planning stage, after winning the corresponding national competitions (selection): - Draga-Sibenik Complex, Croatia (First Prize, invited competition, 2009). - Renovation of El Ninot central market in Barcelona (First Prize, national public competition, 2008). - Dr Josep Trueta General Hospital in Girona, Spain (First Prize, invited competition, 2006). - Women's prison in St. Llorenc d'Hortons, Barcelona (First Prize, invited competition, 2005). - Apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project (shown at New York's MoMA as part of the exhibition "Spain: On Site") - Remodelling of the riverfront in Bayonne, France (First Prize, invited competition, 2006). Exhibitions - selection: 2009 Galeria Ras, Barcelona. "Occasional City" 2006 MoMA, New York. "Spain: On Site". Group exhibition. Housing block in Valencia 2004 Arkitekturgalerie Aedes, Berlin. "Organic versus Inorganic" 1998 Col.legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona Awards - selection: - Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008, C&IT magazine. First Prize for the best international building to host events, conventions and congresses. CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre - 2008 Archizinc Award, First Prize. Sant Jordi Students' Hall of Residence, Barcelona - Contract World 2006, Second Prize. AC Hotel - 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura and the CEOE Foundation 2001, First Prize for the apartment building in Borneo Docks, Amsterdam (Holland) - 1991 Santander Spanish Architecture Biennial. The remodelling of the old town of Ullastret was considered one of the best Spanish architecture projects of the '80s. - 1991 ITALSTAT Award for Young European Architects Publications: Monographs - Selection: Josep Lluis Mateo, Opere e progetti, Electa (Milan, 2007) Josep Lluis Mateo, Works, Projects and Writings, Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona, 2005) Josep Lluis Mateo, World Architecture, Tsinghua University (Beijing, 2003) Josep Lluis Mateo, Recent Work, 2G, Gustavo Gili (Barcelona, 2003) Mateo Atlas, Actar, Ministerio de Fomento and COAC (Barcelona, 1998) Josep Lluis Mateo. Ideen und Bauten, Birkhauser Verlag (Basel, 1995) Josep Lluis Mateo, "Catalogos de Arquitectura Contemporanea" collection, Gustavo Gili (Barcelona, 1992) Books - writings: Textos instrumentales. GG (Barcelona, 2007) Bauen und Denken. Quart (Lucerne, 2002) Books published by the Chair of Professor Mateo (ETH-Zurich): Iconoclastia. News from a Post-Iconic World. Architectural Papers IV. ETH-Actar, 2009 Global Housing Projects. ETH-Actar, 2008 Natural Metaphor. Architectural Papers III. ETH - Actar, 2007 Big Scale. Grossform. Architectural Papers II. ETH - Gustavo Gili, 2006 Object Laboratory. Architectural Papers I. ETH . Gustavo Gili, 2005