Mateo Arquitectura

Occasions

Josep Lluís Mateo presents his book Occasions, which contains the architect’s projects, talks and reflections over the last five years.
Occasions. Ed. Actar. Barcelona 2009.
ISBN: 978-84-96954-97-7

Occasions refers to the specificity of our actions and puts distance between itself and the generic approach. Operating as an architect, I have to go up to phenomena; I cannot merely explain them from the distance that renders them uniform and dilute. I am interested in the viewpoint that causes experiences and ideas to materialize in a unique, special way. In consequence, rather than proposing a practice of general, abstract, generic architecture, Occasions seeks to understand it and to describe it as the product of an intelligence and a specific sensibility.
Occasions points out that our work is always an opportunity to understand and establish active relations with the world.

Contributors:
Stan Allen, Dominique Boudet, Vicente Guallart, José Luis Guerín, Marta Poch, Carlos M. Reis de Figueiredo y Jordi Teixidor.