Mateo Arquitectura

Profile of Mateo Arquitectura, headquartered in Spain. Seven projects submitted by Mateo Arquitectura have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Josep Lluís Mateo – © Jordi Belver

Principal

Josep Lluís Mateo

Brief description

Barcelona-born (1949) Josep Lluís Mateo graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.

Mateo’s practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, the new headquarters for PGGM Pension Fund Company in Zeist, Holland and the office building on the former site of Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, among others.

With each of his projects, Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms. He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.

Published projects

: Film Theatre of Catalonia by Mateo Arquitectura About the form: The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains. In the old town, my building...

: WTC Cornellà Building by Mateo Arquitectura In the Cornellà Business Park, promoted by the World Trade Centre, we must propose architectural alternatives based on the functional logic already tested and...

: PGGM Headquarters by Mateo Arquitectura The aim of the project is to extend the central offices of Dutch pension fund PGGM, duplicating their current surface area on the site in Zeist, near Utrecht...

: The Factory by Mateo Arquitectura When addressing this project for an office building, we started off by thinking about the entire city block as a series of buildings with spaces between them...

: Banco Sabadell by Mateo Arquitectura On various occasions, we were asked to intervene in the most public areas of a lovely building dating from the 1950s (the work of the architect Francesc...

: The Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB) by Mateo Arquitectura The Barcelona International Convention Centre consists of a large hall (15.000 m2, 80m of structural lighting) that can be divided and a block for associated...

: Place de la République as Public Space by Mateo Arquitectura Transforming a traffic junction into an urban space means, firstly, reducing the impact of road traffic. According to studies carried out by our traffic...