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Architecture means time, patience, exchange and observation. This personal journal reflects progress on upcoming projects, awards, collaborations and thoughts on the creative process.
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In Memoriam
Agustí Obiol. 1953-2023
Tribute to a fundamental collaborator in numerous recent and emblematic works of our environment.
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photography and architecture
Toni Catany Photography Centre hosts part of the private photography collection of Josep Lluis Mateo.
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Quaderns n.274 ‘Unveiled affinities’
The latest issue of "Quaderns" looks back on the past and brings to light a cohort of witnesses, revealing unknown discursive continuities from those issues that were edited in Barcelona decades ago.
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Old & new lecture
Old & new conference of the "Architecture for Today" series held by COAIB.
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Donation of part of Mateo’s archive to the gta Archives
The gta Archive at ETH Zurich has received part of the archive and library collection of architect Josep Lluís Mateo.
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Call for the International Architecture Competition for the Montjuïc venue
The jury chaired by Josep Lluís Mateo will review the architectural projects for the remodeling of several halls of the Montjuïc venue.
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Baumeister
Toni Catany's project is selected by Baumeister magazine as an example of architecture worth visiting in Mallorca.
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Location
The relation of the building with the place where it is located is a recurrent argument in our work.
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mateoarquitectura at Es Baluard
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Es Baluard Museu, Mallorca, we participate in the round table: "Spaces for art: the architecture of museums".
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Notes on the urban project
Mateo reflects on architectural resources when designing a city.
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mateoarquitectura at la Casa de la Arquitectura
We are excited to see the firm's practice doubly represented at la Casa de la Arquitectura: in its first exhibition and digitally.
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Book presentation
Join us on the occasion of "in transit" book launch, we organise the talk "Arquitectura, ara" together with Carolina B. García-Estévez & Josep Ferrando.
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New Book, in transit
Josep Lluís Mateo presents a new book halfway between a monograph and a diary of notes compelling his recent work (2020-2023) in several countries.
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SCALAE LECTURE
We were invited together with Calderón-Folch Studio to discuss about professional research: a synthesis of our work to date and our position on professional research in architecture.
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QÜESTIONS D’ARQUITECTURA
Top-level speakers conducted a series of lectures around the artistic production that share the disciplines of photography and architecture at Fundació Toni Catany.
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Archaeological Museum
A central park surrounded by large trees, the building is an exercise in organic adaptation to the site and to nature.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Toni Catany Photography Centre, Llucmajor (Mallorca) hosts on August 24-25th a series of lectures around the artistic production that share the disciplines of photography and architecture curated by Josep Lluís Mateo.
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The New Together
Toni Catany International Photography Centre project is one of 140 architecture projects of "The New Together" exhibition organized by Platform in Venice from 20th May to 30th July 2023.
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Materials Matter
On June 13th, we've participated as lecturers in Materials matter, a meeting that brings the industry closer to architecture, offering perspectives on new materials and sustainable product innovations.
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Toni Catany International Photography Centre opens its doors
Toni Catany International Photography Centre opens its doors in Llucmajor, Mallorca with a double exhibition.
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WELLBEING IN THE WORKSPACE
As a result of the work of Fundación BS, we invited Patricia Klein, María Guell and Ivana Rossell project collaborators to reflect on wellbeing in the workspace from their field of work.
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Notes on the Social Dimension of Architecture
Josep Lluís Mateo reflects on the role of the architect and the implications to which it is subjected.
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Avant-scène new milestones
New milestones are being reached in the ambitious project of Avant-Scène, Nice.
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Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme
Josep Lluís Mateo participates together with local and global critics in the transversal view of the Catalan architectural panorama in the new issue of the COAC magazine "Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme".
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JOHN HEJDUK, Building characters
Josep Lluís Mateo writes the prologue of the JOHN HEJDUK Building characters from Luca Cardani, as well as participates in the presentation of the book at the COAC.
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Office and coworking redesign lecture
We participated as speakers in the event "Office redesign and coworking", in which the main objectives and challenges of the sector were discussed.
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In Memoriam
Manuel Colominas. 1951-2022
Our own tribute to the landscape artist, a crucial actor in our culture.
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FOOTPRINTS WINS JUANZONG ARCHIVE AWARDS
"Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo writings 2005-2020" has received the Juanzong Archive Award on the "Author of the year" category.
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NEW HOUSING ARGENTEUIL
Study of new housing possibilities, commissioned by the company Linkcity (Group Bouygues) in the city of Argenteuil.
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AV 2022 Spain Yearbook
The AV Monographs Yearbook reviews the most relevant events and selects twenty-four buildings that represent the best of architecture built in Spain during 2022.
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Banc Sabadell receives the Laus Companies and Entities Award 2022
Josep Lluís Mateo, responsible for the design of Banc Sabadell's offices is interviewed by the awarding organization.
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COMING SOON: L’AVANT-SCENE, NICE
Currently located in empty space, on the outer periphery of Nice, a new part of the city is set to appear here in the near future: L'avant-scène.
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Detail and big-scale
Approach to full-scale materials and finishes for under construction Avant-Scène project.
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Behind the Scenes. Toni Catany International Photography Centre
Photography and Architecture, Aldo Amoretti and Gabriel Ramon discuss their connection with the photographer and with architecture.
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CCIB collect the M&IT Award 2021
18 years after its creation, the Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB) continues to collect important international awards.
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A SPACE BETWEEN RIVERS
Marked by the presence and interaction of infrastructures of movement across the territory is a large shopping centre with a geometric name (Baricentro).
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Toni Catany International Photography Centre by the press
First impressions of the Spanish press after visiting the International Center of Photography Toni Catany.
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Guided visit to Banc Sabadell Space, Madrid
From the outside, the window, raised above the level of the street, directly shows off the workplace, in an abstract, professional but sober environment.
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Banco Sabadell Space
At a time of transformation for bank branches, here, as an experimental proposal, we created a space as a place to work and to meet. Open but active. Private when necessary.
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The Great Orchard
With the undergrounding of the railways that bisected the city, a large garden-orchard promenade is destined to become its core public space.
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Present architectural questions 2021
A dialogue between Juhani Pallasmaa and Josep Lluís Mateo on "Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo. Writings 2005-2020".
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About Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo. Writings 2005-2020
Several authors (architects, writers, curators, editors and critics) talk about Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo. Writings 2005-2020
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Lecture: Present Times. Practising Architecture during COVID
Josep Lluís Mateo will be reflecting on the practice of architecture in the present times...
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Lecture: Filmoteca de Catalunya (Film Theatre of Catalonia)
On 21 May at 12:00, Josep Lluís Mateo will be talking about the Filmoteca de Catalunya...
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Towards the Building Site
Building calls for proximity. Physical contact. Making dreams come true means coming down to earth...
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Looking Up
“Looking Up” is Josep Lluís Mateo’s interpretation of some of the images that make up The Challenge of the Chamfered Corner...
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’60s Barcelona. New Brutalism
In the nineteen-fifties, local architecture was marked by the presence of the second-generation modern movement...
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NATURE & PROJECT. Chronicle of a Teaching Experience, by Josep Lluís Mateo
During the 2019 fall semester, Josep Lluís Mateo led the Visiting Studio organized for the final year at the ETSAB...
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Josep Lluís Mateo, present digitally at the Quito Architecture Biennial 2020
Under the heading “Transformations”, the 22nd Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennial (BAQ 2020) takes place during the month of November
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CONNEXIO, the first office building at Nice Grand Arénas
In Grand Arénas, the international business centre in Nice...
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Coming soon: Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo. Writings 2005 – 2020
Book launch: December 2020
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El temblor de la arquitectura
Todos los seres humanos sentimos la arquitectura. Este sentimiento –que es una auténtica pulsión– forma parte de nuestra naturaleza.
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Architecture, Next
Reflexionar sobre el futuro, desde una situación tan dura como la que vivimos, se presta a transitar por todo tipo de caminos no atractivos.
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Telluric presence
I stop at another moment: the expression of the force and the energy of nature...
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Josep Lluís Mateo reflects on the darkness in Toni Catany’s images
That theme is light. And, in the hands of the artist, its opposite, darkness, as the ultimate expression, by contrast, with lightness...
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Informal
Competition for the Reurbanisation of Place Roubaud in the neighbourhood of La Bocca, Cannes, France
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Work on pause: Toni Catany International Photography Centre
Just a few months ago, building work was starting on the site...
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Work in progress
DETAILS: Apartment building in Heerhugowaard (Holland)
The idea behind its rugged, rustic, varied envelope is to avoid typical Dutch abstraction...
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Work in progress
Space: ESMA Montpellier
At the end of the building of the structure, sometimes, the space appears. No finishes, no anomalies and no life: pure space.
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Josep Lluís Mateo responde a un estudiante de arquitectura
La ETSAB reedita dentro de su colección de ETSAB breus - breves la entrevista realizada por Piotr Lopatka, ex alumno del Prof. Dr. Josep Lluís Mateo en su Cátedra de Proyectos en la ETH de Zürich
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Josep Lluís Mateo journeys to German Romanticism
Josep Lluís Mateo talks about Architecture during Romanticism in the cycle "A Journey to German Romanticism" organized by the Goethe-Institut Barcelona...
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TRANSFER Architecture Video Award presents the winners of its first edition
The first winner of the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is the video by Luís Úrculo, Brazilian Embassy / Ipiña + Nieto Arquitectos, Chile, 2019...
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Guided visit to Banc Sabadell Company HUB
Through large windows, the space opens up to its surroundings, the city...
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Work in progress
Josep Lluís Mateo designs the Toni Catany International Photography Centre
His proposal presents a spacious courtyard leading into the installation...
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Josep Lluís Mateo, Professional Work (2014 – 2019)
Josep Lluís Mateo will be taking part in “Culture”, the series of lectures organised by the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture)...
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BÉTON: ESMA Montpellier
The delicate touch of Madame Varlet moves over the concrete walls...
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ETSAB VISITING STUDIO (WINTER SEMESTER)
This semester, near the end of the course of study at the ETSAB, brings to bear a multiple vision of the design process...
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Between the sea and the mountains. Each house, a world unto itself
To understand the reason for this house, you have to see it from the sea...
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Nice from the sky
A drone follows the central axis of the new multimodal hub of Nice Grand Arénas...
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Laying the first stone in the apartment building in Heerhugowaard, Holland
The first stone of the apartment building designed by mateoarquitectura in the centre of Heerhugowaard, Holland, will be laid on Wednesday 22 May at 15:30
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Josep Lluís Mateo closes the Foros 2019 cycle “Identities”
Josep Lluís will be exploring two opposing forces that interact in our reality...
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BOOK REVIEW: CRÍTICA DE CHOQUE (SHOCK CRITICISM)
The book describes the contemporary cultural landscape, a time when communication and criticism come face to face with new issues such as fake news...
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Prototypes. 80 Housing units in Heerhugowaard, Holland
Working with matter is a mental activity, but it involves experimenting physical, sensible presence...
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Unpublished text by Marcel Meili about Quaderns in the 80s
There are several texts by Josep Lluís Mateo, which have aroused our special interest in Quaderns. Texts about technology, reality and periphery...
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Montpellier : « Une enveloppe de béton transformé en matériau précieux »
Josep Lluís Mateo a pensé le futur grand pôle français de formation dans les métiers de la création et du numérique...
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Montpellier, First Stone. 21 March 2019
The tradition of celebrating the start of work on a building is a reminder that our profession starts with ideas but is necessarily formalised with matter.
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The dream of the Metropolis is constructed in the subsoil
Text by Josep Lluís Mateo, for Marcel Meili, Markus Peter 1987 – 2008. Zurich, 2008
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Laying the first stone of the Campus Créatif of ESMA Montpellier, France
The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Campus Créatif ESMA Montpellier, France, will take place on Thursday 21 March at 19:00...
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Atacama
In the vertical plane, lines draw animals, friendly presences. In the horizontal plane, straight lines mark the layout of the new city...
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10th anniversary of the Nice Éco-Vallée project
Nice Éco-Vallée, the scheme to promote the area of Nice Grand Arénas where Josep Lluís Mateo is carrying out his urban planning and development project, celebrates its 10th anniversary...
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“Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe”
“Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe” highlights Josep Lluís Mateo’s contribution as editor of the magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1981-1990)...
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The blue house on the sea, by Ignasi Solà-Morales
On a cold and blustery Saturday in February 2001 Ignasi Solà-Morales and I went to visit this house in Mallorca...
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“The First House…” cycle of dialogues, featuring Josep Lluís Mateo
Next Wednesday 16 January, Josep Lluís Mateo will be taking part in the cycle “The First House..."
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Self, Shell, Shelter
To speak of the shelter is to recall an archaic, primitive argument of our work. The condition of protection from a hostile exterior...
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Beneath the paving stones lies the sea…
In the main axis of the new multimodal hub in the French city of Nice, for the first time in Europe, a large expanse of urban cool paving has been created.
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De l’incarnation. Entretien avec Josep Lluís Mateo
Josep Lluis Mateo nous reçoit dans son agence, au pied des montagnes qui au nord, délimitent Barcelone...
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Sustainability and Architecture: Office Building in Cornellà
A classic pattern of office building. It consists in a sequence of surface areas around a courtyard with single entrance. General atrium of the complex.
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Toulouse 2030: Designing the City of Tomorrow
The dwellings designed by Josep Lluís Mateo in Toulouse will form part of the exhibition Toulouse 2030
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Dwellings on Borneo Island, Amsterdam. Revisited
Almost 20 years after its completion, we revisit the housing project on the island of Borneo in the port of Amsterdam...
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