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This bold and impeccably designed book considers renowned architect Josep Lluis Mateo's most recent works and projects in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. For Mateo, "a project always sets out to pose an idea", and this book surveys in detail, with photos and contributions by several authorities as well as the architect himself, how Mateo's ideas make themselves manifest. The multiplicity and complexity of Mateo's refined architectural sensibility is nowhere more conveyed than in this book.
Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers - earth's crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air's thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundations, the roof shields from water, the openings control the flow of air, and the walls protect from the gleaming sun.
Josep Llus Mateo is one of Spain's most influential architects in architecture today. This book brings together his recent projects, his influences, his references together with material from interviews and a wealth of images. It is, in a nutshell, his work philosophy. Conversations, reflections and projects completed in the last five years are presented as realities and actions, interpreted through this concept, which can be contemplated as infinity of individual forms of contacting with reality and acting upon it. For Josep Llus Mateo, the crux of this work is to analyze, from the perspective of his unique work, the state of issues and situations today in architecture and to interact accordingly with exterior space.
Unsere jüngste Vergangenheit ist geprägt von den Auswirkungen der Pandemie (Abriegelung, Isolation, Entfernung, Immobilität usw.). Diese Entwicklung hat sich deutlich auf die Architektur ausgewirkt: Es gibt eine neue Nachfrage nach einer direkteren Verbindung mit der Außenwelt, nach mehr Nähe und mehr Kontakt. Die Ausstellung stellt Gebäude und Projekte aus dieser Zeit (2020-23) vor und erörtert die Umstände, unter denen sie entstanden sind. Dies ist mehr als nur eine Präsentation der Ergebnisse: Diese Monographie reflektiert auch die ungeplanten Ereignisse, die das Werk und den Moment beeinflusst (oder manchmal sogar erklärt) haben.
The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection of housing projects reflects the most innovative and influential built housing projects to propose new important guidelines in housing.
Josep Lluís Mateo (born 1949) is one of Spain's--and Europe's--most prolific and visible architects, as energetic as a teacher and lecturer as he is an architect. Mateo has designed corporate headquarters, housing units, office blocks and hotels throughout Western Europe, and has also renovated urban centers in Gerona (Spain) and Castelo Branco (portugal). this volume looks back at nearly 30 years of Mateo's built structures, as portrayed by the architectural photographer Adrià Goula. As well as buildings from the 80s and 90s, it also looks at his most important projects of the past few years, from the Banc Sabadell Headquarters renovation (2004) and the Factory office building in Boulogne-Billancourt, France (2010) to the PGGM Headquarters in Zeist, Holland (2011) and the Catalonian Film Theater in Barcelona (2011). Interspersed among Goula's photographs are Mateo's observations and musings on architecture.