CCIB key venue for the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026
Designed as a place for dialogue and exchange, the CCIB hosted one of architecture's most significant global gatherings.
Atlas Re-Edificatoria
Atlas Re-Edificatoria, an exhibition of Adrià Goula's photographs exploring architecture as a continuous process of transformation, memory and construction.
Discussing the Future of Architecture at UIA 2026
As part of the 2026 UIA World Congress in Barcelona, Josep Lluís Mateo participated as moderator of the public debate organized by the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA).
Ninot Market Included in Radical Rehab at the Casa de la Arquitectura
El Ninot Market has been selected as one of the 80 works featured in the exhibition Radical Rehab. Architecture and Heritage in Spain (1975–2025), currently on view at the Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid.
Barcelona 2026: Year of Architecture
At the Círculo Ecuestre in Barcelona, Josep Lluís Mateo joined a conversation & wrote this opinion piece on the future of the city ahead of its designation as UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture 2026.
Press clipping
A recap of the recent press coverage around “OBRA OBERTA. Josep Lluís Mateo” exhibition
Obra Oberta al futur
Top-level speakers participate in this closing event for the OBRA OBERTA exhibition.
photography and architecture: fragments from a collection
OBRA OBERTA exhibition brings together some of the photographs collected over time by Josep Lluís Mateo.
Temporary exhibition
A journey through more than four decades of architectural practice, from early sketches to models, collages, documents, and personal reflections.
Converses desenfadades
More than a talk, it was a moment of connection and openness — a reminder that architecture, at its core, is dialogue.
Grandes Estudios Líderes de Arquitectura
Speakers at Grupo Via's lecture focused on the role of leading architecture studios in shaping the future urban landscape
El tamaño de la forma
This significant architectural essay by Agustí Obiol is published posthumously thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Cecília Obiol, and architect Josep Lluís Mateo.
Three major architectural projects will transform the Montjuïc venue
The future Montjuïc venue is starting to take shape through the designs of the winning teams of the architectural competition
Liber Amicorum in homage to Rafael Argullol
Josep Lluis Mateo participates in a book tribute to the career of the philosopher
20 years CCIB
On the occasion of the CCIB's 20th anniversary, Josep Lluís Mateo reflects on the building and its primary purpose
The city seen from the peripheries as a counter-discourse
Round table with Josep Lluís Mateo, Manuel Borja-Villel, Juan Herreros and Joan Roca
100 Architects of the Year 2024
Josep Lluís Mateo selected among the "100 Architects of the Year 2024" by the Korean Institute of Architects (KIA)
photography and architecture
Toni Catany Photography Centre hosts part of the private photography collection of Josep Lluis Mateo.
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.
Old & new lecture
Old & new conference of the "Architecture for Today" series held by COAIB.
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.
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.
Baumeister
Toni Catany's project is selected by Baumeister magazine as an example of architecture worth visiting in Mallorca.
Location
The relation of the building with the place where it is located is a recurrent argument in our work.
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".
Notes on the urban project
Mateo reflects on architectural resources when designing a city.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Towards the Building Site
Building calls for proximity. Physical contact. Making dreams come true means coming down to earth...
’60s Barcelona. New Brutalism
In the nineteen-fifties, local architecture was marked by the presence of the second-generation modern movement...
El temblor de la arquitectura
Todos los seres humanos sentimos la arquitectura. Este sentimiento –que es una auténtica pulsión– forma parte de nuestra naturaleza.
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.
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...
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...
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...
The dream of the Metropolis is constructed in the subsoil
Text by Josep Lluís Mateo, for Marcel Meili, Markus Peter 1987 – 2008. Zurich, 2008
Atacama
In the vertical plane, lines draw animals, friendly presences. In the horizontal plane, straight lines mark the layout of the new city...
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...
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...
5 books recommended by Josep Lluís Mateo
Josep Lluís Mateo recommends the five most significant books about architecture produced over the last 35 years for him.
Island, desert, mountain: architecture degree zero
Architecture – that prosthesis sometimes necessary for survival – is presented in its initial condition. As degree zero.
Mountain
The relationship between architecture and landscape in environments of extreme topography.
Desert
Establishing links between the desert and architecture entails imagining an object facing its antagonist...
Le Bon Sauvage. A Contemporary Architect’s Status
The imaginary of the profession of architect has historically seen the emergence of various paradigms...
EARTH
The earth is our support, our base, the root that will, eventually, allow us to fly. To speak of the earth requires us...