TORRE TELEFÓNICA. DIAGONAL 00

Today, opeing the exhibition about Telefónica Diagonal 00 Tower by Enric Massip-Bosch, at the COAC. The first book that has been published on this work, I am sure there will be more, is at the height of this exceptional building. It is a book with a great profusion of good images and contrary to what is usual for this type of format, it goes a step further and includes support images, the necessary technical drawings and different texts by renowned architects and architecture critics.

[Spanish] La presencia de la red está haciendo que las editoriales tengan que mejorar su publicaciones, de manera consciente o inconsciente, como es el caso. En los últimos meses algunas de ellas, como Taschen con "Project Japan. Metabolism Talks…" y ahora Lunwerg con este libro, nos han sorprendido con libros que se salen de su tónica habitual demasiado dependientes de la profusión fotográfica.

El libro se convierte en un documento imprescindible para entender el edificio, con imágenes de maquetas, fotografías de trabajos previos, imágenes de la construcción y de su estado final, planos técnicos e imágenes complementarias que acompañan un grupo de textos que de manera brillante escanean desde diferentes puntos de vista las múltiples facetas del edificio.

El grupo de textos viene firmado por Jordi Badia, José Juan Barba, Antoni Güell, Julio Martínez, Josep Lluis Mateio Mihail Moldoveanu, Llàtzer Moix, Enric Massip-Bosch.

Es un libro muy recomendable, que acompaña a una exposición que no te puedes perder.

A continuación algunos extractos del libro:

"No es exagerado decir que la Torre Telefónica Diagonal 00 es, desde su mismo nacimiento, un edificio emblemático de Barcelona." Antoni Güell.
"Junto a su planta de forma romboidal, diamantina, esta segunda estructura es probablemente el elemento que mejor distingue la Torre... la que concreta su personalidad". Llàtzer Moix.
"Las singularidades que presenta el proyecto estructural y que reflejan los aspectos fundamentales de la tensibilidad señalada del edificio se centran principalmente en la forma en planta del mismo y en las características específicas que se dan en el conjunto de la doble malla, también interconectada, que constituye la fachada exterior portante". Julio Martínez.
"...blanco, sin duda un gran acierto- que no le viene mal al lugar, sobredimensionado de geometrías ortogonales". Josep Lluís Mateo.
"El Gigante sensible". Jordi Badia.
"En el camino hacia la construcción de la Barcelona vertical, la Torre Telefónica Diagonal 00 tiene un papel privilegiado." José Juan Barba

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Torre Telefónica Diagonal Zero Zero. Interior view. EMBA. Photograph ©Pedro Antonio Pérez.

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ENRIC MASSIP

Enric Massip-Bosch (Barcelona, 1960), architect. Lecturer of Projects in UPC since 1994. In 1990 he founded EMBA_ESTUDI MASSIP-BOSCH ARQUITECTES. He regularly has texts on architecture published in various media.

JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

JOSEP LLUÍS MATEO

Josep Lluís Mateo was born in Barcelona (1949) and graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.

Mateo’s practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, the new headquarters for PGGM Pension Fund Company in Zeist, Holland and the office building on the former site of Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, among others.

With each of his projects, Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms. He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.

Academic collaborations and teaching:
Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002. He has also taught and lectured at numerous institutions around the world, including Princeton, Columbia University in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo and ITESM Mexico. He was Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992. Josep Lluís Mateo is President since 2009 of the Board of Directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture. He has been a member of a number of juries and expert committees, including the Quality Committee of Barcelona City Council (2000-2008), and for prizes such as the European Landscape Award and the Thyssen Award.

Recent exhibitions and prizes:
The practice’s work has been exhibited on numerous occasions thanks to its international influence. New York’s MoMA devoted a space in the exhibition “Spain: On Site” (2006) to its apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project. Individual exhibitions include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona, 2009), Architekturgalerie Aedes (Berlin, 2004), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, 1998), Col•legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998),Galerie Fragner (Prague, 1998), Galerie Aedes (Berlin, 1994), Architekturgalerie Luzern (Luzern, 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich, 1991).

The work of Josep Lluís Mateo has been awarded many prizes, including:
- Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008, First Prize. Best International Convention Centre category.
Organized by C&IT magazine, London. Project: CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 2008 Archizinc Award, First Prize. Collective Housing category. Project: Sant Jordi Students’ Hall of Residence, Barcelona
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, Runner-up. Project: CCIB- Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura.

JORDI BADIA

Jordi Badia (Barcelona, 1961) graduated in architecture from the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture) in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 he practiced a professional partnership with Tonet Sunyer. In 1994 founded the BAAS architecture study, Jordi Badia combines his professional task of an architect with that of a professor at the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAB since 2001 and at ESARQ-UIC since 2009. He also collaborates to the newspaper ARA since 2010 and is editor of the Hic Architecture since 2009. Along with Felix Arranz, he curated the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

The practice is currently working on various projects, including the town hall in Montroig del Camp, the headquarters of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and the new premises of the MUHBA (Museum of History of Barcelona) in Poblenou district, Barcelona. The office is also working on the citizens building in Palamós, the extensive rehabilitation of Alta Diagonal office building in Barcelona and the Radio and TV University in Katowice, Poland.