Mateo Arquitectura

OCCASIONAL CITY at Galeria RAS

Coinciding with the publication of Occasions, Josep Lluís Mateo’s latest book, the installation “Occasional City” took place at Galeria RAS in Barcelona in September. This ephemeral installation (lasting four days) served to exhibit a meticulous selection of models of some of the practice’s major recent projects.

In addition to models, the installation included videos about projects by mateoarquitectura that are currently at the construction phase, and interventions by Josep Lluís Mateo in lectures and conferences.

The installation devised for the event recreated an imaginary city made up of various real cites.

In these cities, the architecture of Josep Lluís Mateo has found the Occasions to construct, in some cases, or design others. Hence the name of the installation: “Occasional City is an ideal city consisting of fragments of cities in which we have been invited to work. It is global and local, comprised of order and hierarchy (despite being fortuitous), and it organizes our responses on the occasions when we have been asked.”
(JLLM)

Photos: Pedro Pegenaute