Text by Philip Ursprung, Agustí Obiol, Dominique Boudet. Interview by Fredy Massad, Alicia Guerrero.
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.
Featured image, of PGGM Company Headquarters, Zeist, Netherlands, is reproduced from Josep Lluís Mateo: On Building.
FORMAT: Hbk, 12.25 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs / 118 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $84 ISBN: 9788434313125 PUBLISHER: Ediciones Polígrafa AVAILABLE: 8/30/2012 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA Japan
Published by Ediciones Polígrafa. Text by Philip Ursprung, Agustí Obiol, Dominique Boudet. Interview by Fredy Massad, Alicia Guerrero.
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.
