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José Luis Mateo INFORMATION FOR THE PRESS José Luis Mateo has a leading position among contemporary Spanish architects. For years he influenced the international architectural debate as the editor of the architectural magazine Quaderns, before founding Map Architects in 1991 and increasingly dedicating himself to the realization of his ideas, documented by an impressive series on constructions and projects in and outside Spain. Mateo supports the necessity of ,,normal" architecture, increasingly dealing with every-day architecture. An essential part of the architect’s profession is to produce every-day architecture and to work with limits and then to create architecture full of content in the context of these conditions. Map Architects permanently ranges between a world of ideas and physical reality. Mateo’s works have a relaxing and even succinct elegance, pragmatic poetics, drawing from the at least virtually existing, arranging this disparate material and seducing into a game with ,,everyday life". The exhibition in the Lichtforum Zumtobel presents four projects, chronologically and thematically reflecting Map Architects’ range of creation. Reurbanisation of the small town Ullastret (Gerona), Spain, 1982 - 1985 Complex with apartments, hotels, offices, shopping mall and car park " Calle Joan Güell", Barcelona, Spain, 1988 - 1993 Apartments in the Port of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1995 - 1997 Administration centre for the German Central Bank, Germany, 1999 - 2001 ,,At a time where different realities exist simultaneously, we are often forced to work within limits, precisely there where these realities come into contact." José Luis Mateo |
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Press page Current events Past events Dates: Jos» Luis Mateo Information: Ines Purtauf Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 25 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: purtauf@azw.at |
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