Josep Lluis Mateo
Josep Lluís Mateo is an architect since 1974.
His work is mostly in Europe with projects built in France, Germany, Portugal, Holland, Croatia and Spain, specializing in quality buildings specifically adapted to a variety of cultural and programmatic conditions.
Career
D. from the UPC, 1994.Professor of Architecture and Design at the ETH-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule since 2002, from where he has directed several architectural researches that have culminated in the edition of publications such as The Four Elements and Architecture: Earth, Water, Air, Fire. Architectural Papers VII. Currently, professor emeritus and member of the steering committee of the Gta.
He has lectured and taught at leading academic and professional institutions around the world, including Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a visiting professor in 2015; Princeton, Columbia University in New York, scholar at the Jean Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, Cooper Union New York, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo, ITESM Mexico or ITT College of Architecture in Chicago.
Member of the Ordre des Architectes of Paris, the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects of Zürich and the Official College of Architects of Catalonia of Barcelona.
He directed the publication Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme between 1981 and 1990, a period in which the publication was awarded the ACCA 1981; Laus 1985 and Laus ADG 1981; Ciutat de Barcelona 1984; and the prize awarded by the International Union of Architects at the Sofia Biennial in 1990.
Its practice, mateoarquitectura, is globally active and in each project tries to connect intellectual and artistic ambition with pragmatism and objectivity. It has been named one of the top 100 architecture firms of 2019 by Domus magazine.