Òscar Tusquets
Oscar Tusquets Blanca, is a Spanish architect.
Biography
Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His old sister（1936.08.30-2012.07.23） is the novelist Esther Tusquets.He studied at the German School of Barcelona, at the Escola de la Llotja, and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where he graduated in 1965. He worked in the studio of Federico Correa and Alfons Milà i Sagnier, and in 1964 he established Studio PER, with Josep Bonet i Bertran, Cristian Cirici i Alomar and Lluís Clotet i Ballús, with whom he collaborated until 1984. His concept of design is a creative task inserted within the corresponding cultural framework.
Together with Beatriz de Moura, in 1968 he established Tusquets Editores.
Selected works
;Architecture:- Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1993-1997
- Restoration and extension of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, 1982 and 1989
- Del Liceu al Seminari, 1980-81
- Convent dels Àngels area, 1983
- Avinguda de la Catedral, 1986
- Olympic Village, 1988-92
- rattan chairs
- ''Contra la desnudez''
Honors
- 1988: Premio Nacional de Diseño
- 1987: Creu de Sant Jordi