Mateo Arquitectura

Work in progress: The continuing remodelling of El Ninot Market in Barcelona

Phase two of remodelling work on El Ninot market in Barcelona is nearing completion.
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Headquarters of the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in the Raval district of Barcelona
First prize, public competition 2004

<< About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains.
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Lecture “Architecture and City: A Personal View” by Josep Lluís Mateo

On Friday May 6th

During the first week of May, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, BIArch, hosts the International Symposium City and Society in the Post-Industrial Glocal Age. more »

Opening of the exhibition “Dos carrers, una plaça/Deux rues, une place” [Two Streets, One Square], last Monday 31 January in Perpignan, including Josep Lluís Mateo’s project for the development of the old town of Ullastret, Girona

AURCA (Agència d’Urbanisme Catalana) in Toulouges and the FPGUiF (Fundació privada Girona: Universitat i Futur) in Girona have jointly organized a Forum of Interesting Urbanistic Interventions in the framework of cross-border projects in the eurodistrict of the Catalan Cross-border Space. It will include the 1982 project by Josep Lluís Mateo for the development of the old town of Ullastret, Girona (declared a historic monument in 1983). more »

New Film Theatre of Catalonia from Josep Lluís Mateo on Vimeo

Video: Jonathan Guillén

New building for the Cinematheque of Catalunya (Archives, Library and Cinema Halls) in the Raval, Barcelona.

First Prize. Restricted competition 2004

<<The new building will stand in the Raval, one of the most run-down parts of Barcelona’s historic centre and currently the object of an energetic policy of demolition and new run-of-the-mill construction.

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The project for the new Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta in Girona (Spain) will be exhibited at COAC
June 17 – July 17, 2010

The exhibition “Arquitectura per a la Salut” compiles projects and works around Architecture for the Health in Catalonia during the last 18 years (1991-2009) and includes the model for the new Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta in Girona.

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The project for the women’s prison in Barcelona will be exhibited at COAC
June 10 – September 4, 2010

“Arquitectura judicial y penitenciaria” (Legal and Penitentiary Architecture) is the title of the exhibition that compiles the most important projects and works in Catalonia during the last 7 years: 33 judicial buildings and 12 prisions. Mateo Arquitectura participates with his project for the women’s prison in St. Llorenç d’Hortons (Barcelona), including the model and graphic material.

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“Filmoteca de Catalunya” at the National Glyptotheque in Athens, Greece.
May 20 – August 29, 2010

The exhibition compiles the most relevant examples of contemporary Spanish architecture.
Mateo Arquitectura includes a model and graphic material of the new Film Theatre in Barcelona, which is now under construction.