Prototypes. 80 Housing units in Heerhugowaard, Holland
Working with matter is a mental activity, but it involves experimenting physical, sensible presence...
Montpellier : « Une enveloppe de béton transformé en matériau précieux »
Josep Lluís Mateo a pensé le futur grand pôle français de formation dans les métiers de la création et du numérique...
Montpellier, First Stone. 21 March 2019
The tradition of celebrating the start of work on a building is a reminder that our profession starts with ideas but is necessarily formalised with matter.
Laying the first stone of the Campus Créatif of ESMA Montpellier, France
The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Campus Créatif ESMA Montpellier, France, will take place on Thursday 21 March at 19:00...
Atacama
In the vertical plane, lines draw animals, friendly presences. In the horizontal plane, straight lines mark the layout of the new city...
10th anniversary of the Nice Éco-Vallée project
Nice Éco-Vallée, the scheme to promote the area of Nice Grand Arénas where Josep Lluís Mateo is carrying out his urban planning and development project, celebrates its 10th anniversary...
“Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe”
“Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe” highlights Josep Lluís Mateo’s contribution as editor of the magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1981-1990)...
The blue house on the sea, by Ignasi Solà-Morales
On a cold and blustery Saturday in February 2001 Ignasi Solà-Morales and I went to visit this house in Mallorca...
“The First House…” cycle of dialogues, featuring Josep Lluís Mateo
Next Wednesday 16 January, Josep Lluís Mateo will be taking part in the cycle “The First House..."
Self, Shell, Shelter
To speak of the shelter is to recall an archaic, primitive argument of our work. The condition of protection from a hostile exterior...
Beneath the paving stones lies the sea…
In the main axis of the new multimodal hub in the French city of Nice, for the first time in Europe, a large expanse of urban cool paving has been created.
De l’incarnation. Entretien avec Josep Lluís Mateo
Josep Lluis Mateo nous reçoit dans son agence, au pied des montagnes qui au nord, délimitent Barcelone...
Sustainability and Architecture: Office Building in Cornellà
A classic pattern of office building. It consists in a sequence of surface areas around a courtyard with single entrance. General atrium of the complex.
Toulouse 2030: Designing the City of Tomorrow
The dwellings designed by Josep Lluís Mateo in Toulouse will form part of the exhibition Toulouse 2030
Dwellings on Borneo Island, Amsterdam. Revisited
Almost 20 years after its completion, we revisit the housing project on the island of Borneo in the port of Amsterdam...
Josep Lluís Mateo, FOOTPRINTS. Making of
Here, without pretending to draw the line, we show a few points, some footprints, in our journey...
Round Table: EXHIBIT ART AND ARCHITECTURE
PARTICIPANTS
Rafael Argullol
Writer, Professor of Aesthetics at UPF...
Footprints, an exhibition of Josep Lluís Mateo
A journey, a path, is made up of a succession of points, of steps, of footprints, which, viewed as a whole, indicate a direction, reveal (or not) their meaning.
An overview of Josep Lluís Mateo career by Nader Tehrani
On March 27, Josep Lluís Mateo gave a lecture entitled “Footprints” at The Cooper Union...
5 books recommended by Josep Lluís Mateo
Josep Lluís Mateo recommends the five most significant books about architecture produced over the last 35 years for him.
Island, desert, mountain: architecture degree zero
Architecture – that prosthesis sometimes necessary for survival – is presented in its initial condition. As degree zero.
Mountain
The relationship between architecture and landscape in environments of extreme topography.
Nice Grand Arénas. France
Un projet sur 50ha du sol public, le nouveau centre urbain de la ville.
(Version en français)
Desert
Establishing links between the desert and architecture entails imagining an object facing its antagonist...
Earthworks
Take two of my projects 30 years apart, one recent work and one early scheme; despite the lapse in time and their very different contexts, they reveal much in common.
Nice Grand Arénas. France
50 hectares of public land on which to design the city’s new urban centre.
Le Bon Sauvage. A Contemporary Architect’s Status
The imaginary of the profession of architect has historically seen the emergence of various paradigms...
THE VALUES OF ARCHITECTURE – Josep Lluís Mateo
Preparatory notes for an oral intervention in the closing session of the Architects’ Congress of Catalonia...
The art of the model maker. Report by betevé (Barcelona Television) at Mateo Arquitectura
Report by the culture programme Àrtic, shown by betevé...
CCIB, Best Overseas Conference Centre 2017
The Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB), designed by Josep Lluís Mateo (mateoarquitectura), has been awarded the Gold...
Montpellier Cité Créative
The project for the creation of a cluster devoted to culture and creative industries (CCI) has been presented in the city of Montpellier...
Josep Lluís Mateo presents Philip Ursprung at “Europa, Europa”
Josep Lluís Mateo was asked to present Philip Ursprung on the occasion...
Aftermath. Architecture beyond Architects – Venice Architecture Biennale
Aftermath. Architecture beyond Architects...
“Volume, Void, Surface”: Talk at the Politecnico di Milano
“In the city, we define an urban space by means of the interrelation of objects in the void...”
TRANSFER: a new Global Architecture Platform
Transfer is a new independent digital editorial project based on the production and transmission of architectural knowledge...
Materials #2: Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall
Two parallel surfaces organize what used to be an empty space without weighing it down...
Materials: Dwellings in Toulouse
The structure comprises a series of parallel concrete walls...
Dwellings in Toulouse: The Garden
A housing development that seeks to optimize the living conditions of each...
Nature as a continuous layer for the PGGM‘s headquarters to float on
The landscape created at PGGM’s headquarters, four years on...
New app: “BCN architecture guide by Josep Lluís Mateo”
“A personal guide is not scientific; it’s about sharing information and experiences...
EL NINOT MARKET: LIGHT IN THE SPACE
The space took the form of a great pre-existing roof. Beautiful...
Josep Lluís Mateo at the Harvard GSD: On housing
On February 2, Josep Lluís Mateo gave a lecture entitled “On housing”...
Urban Filters #2
“We are interested in the surface, but we like to see it in relation to the volume..."
Urban Filters #1
“We know that the skin is important, but what interests us is seeing it..."
Josep Lluís Mateo answers to an old student
Action (because the project is a proposition to act, to do something) is the product of synthetic thinking...
Museums: #4 Kunsthaus Zürich extension
We were to continue constructing the front that is the plaza, as the empty space currently...
Museums: #3 Cultural Center in Castelo Branco
The plaza is a surface, a topography drawn out in relation to the movement of the water and built by pedreiros...
Museums: #2 Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
The monument to the Ghetto Uprising, which stands in a large void without physical significance, surrounded by anonymous...
Exhibition: Theater Objects: A Stage for Architecture and Art
Theater Objects: A Stage for Architecture and Art features works by, between others, Josep Lluís Mateo...
Museums: #1 Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall
In the grounds of Prague Castle, among various palaces currently reused to house the National Gallery, the brief was to design...
Earth, Water, Air, Fire. The Four Elements and Architecture Today
Whereas in our recent past the paradigm by which architecture was measured was the city...
“Panta Rhei”, an exhibition of Mateo Arquitectura
Exhibiting, presenting things in public, always means addressing time...
EARTH
The earth is our support, our base, the root that will, eventually, allow us to fly. To speak of the earth requires us...