Coming soon: Footprints. Josep Lluís Mateo. Writings 2005 – 2020

Book launch: October 2020

Todos los seres humanos sentimos la arquitectura. Este sentimiento –que es una auténtica pulsión– forma parte de nuestra naturaleza.

Reflexionar sobre el futuro, desde una situación tan dura como la que vivimos, se presta a transitar por todo tipo de caminos no atractivos.

That theme is light. And, in the hands of the artist, its opposite, darkness, as the ultimate expression, by contrast, with lightness...

This semester, near the end of the course of study at the ETSAB, brings to bear a multiple vision of the design process...

There are several texts by Josep Lluís Mateo, which have aroused our special interest in Quaderns. Texts about technology, reality and periphery...

In memoriam

Text by Josep Lluís Mateo, for Marcel Meili, Markus Peter 1987 – 2008. Zurich, 2008

In the vertical plane, lines draw animals, friendly presences. In the horizontal plane, straight lines mark the layout of the new city...

To speak of the shelter is to recall an archaic, primitive argument of our work. The condition of protection from a hostile exterior...

Josep Lluís Mateo recommends the five most significant books about architecture produced over the last 35 years for him.

Architecture – that prosthesis sometimes necessary for survival – is presented in its initial condition. As degree zero.

The relationship between architecture and landscape in environments of extreme topography.

Establishing links between the desert and architecture entails imagining an object facing its antagonist...

The imaginary of the profession of architect has historically seen the emergence of various paradigms...

Islands, finite, enclosed spaces: the limit as condition and presence, as unifying moment.

Transfer is a new independent digital editorial project based on the production and transmission of architectural knowledge...

The earth is our support, our base, the root that will, eventually, allow us to fly. To speak of the earth requires us...