Publications
T18 Magazine
For over ten years, with Xavier Alba, a good friend, good architect and classmate, we think about the possibility to edit a magazine of architecture, to publish such a good architecture all over the...
Travel Notebooks. Reviewing the Masters
They say that we are what we eat, but fundamentally, we are what others thought before us and we make our own or not… Without knowing what those who preceded us did, we will hardly find our place or...
Sustainable Projects for Complexity
The book, published in Italy under the title Progetti Sostenibili per la Complessità, delves into the binomial sustainability and complexity as world conditions that are upon us and for this it is...
Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica
Barcelona, like Venice and so many other fashionable destinations, suffers from the continuous invasion of hordes of tourists with (or against) whom the city must deal with. The monograph of the...
Architecture from confinement
The College of Architects invited a whole series of architects to write about the meaning of the pandemic and the importance of architecture to face it (architecture is still a third skin with which...
Entre(vistas) Arquitectónicas
The book collects some of the series of interviews published all of them in the magazine t18 that seek to delve into the relationship between architecture and other bordering disciplines to see how...
Architectural Guides for Non Architects
I will think that architects are most likely to talk about who they are not and these is the reason of that collection of ´Architectural Guides for non-Architects’ in which I explain in a planned...
Letter To Mexicans. Octavio Mestre. Incomplete Work
Book that collects 70 buildings built and 70 lost competitions, written as a result of having closed with my conference, the ARQ Festival of 2026 in Guadalajara (Mexico), a conference in which I...
Architecture as a Mystery
Our work as an architect has a certain condition of alchemist, of transmuting metals, of turning worthless bricks into something valuable... And woe to anyone who renounces that magic, that search...
Characters of Catalonia
Book that reviews politicians (from the mayor of Barcelona to the President of the Generalitat), industrialists, university deans, television presenters, what is called civil society, etc. and among...
Biografies rellevants dels nostres arquitectes
Set of biographies of architects (relevant or not so much) within the line of other books of the type. In-depth interviews. Interesting to find out about things, anecdotes of those who are fellow...
Remembering Coderch
At the initiative of Pati Nuñez, on the occasion of the Centenary of the birth of Coderch and with the participation of MINIM, the book includes interviews with a whole series of collaborators who,...
Efficient Offices
We have made the headquarters of Inmobiliaria Colonial and, for them, half a dozen rental office buildings, several Regional Government Offices (the Labor Department and the Territorial Relations...
Fundamental Particles
BAT 774 at CERN.The book talks about the need for internationalization and the needs of CERN (acronym for Center Européen de la Recherche Nucléaire), an organization that occupies nine...
Rehabilitation. Dealing with History
Increasingly, our destiny as architects will be to work in established environments. The urban condition is the environment in which we develop and for a single-family home that we build, we will...
Retail Spaces
We never wanted to be specialists in anything (let others be), but the truth is that many have us for it. In this country, you win a competition for a library, a court or a school and you end up...
Slats Façades
If we stick to the dictionary, lattice would be a wooden or metal lattice through which you can see without being seen. And if we accept the dissolution of the classical concept of façade (the...
Housing in Tamariu. Monographic in 1in100
I met Sergio Danisowski at a World Festival in Barcelona. My house in Tamariu had already been published in more than a dozen magazines, they had made television programs, we included it in our book...
Building Skins
Mies van der Rohe used to say that God is in the details. Mies was a man of presence and resounding phrases, of which, perhaps, his Less is more is the best known. Although the American architect...
Building & Light
“Every staircase goes up to the light” (I remember writing in my travel notebook, as a student, having visited LC's studio in Paris on Nungesser et Coli street)… Of course, there are also stairs...
Sunlight Houses
This book gives an account of some of the houses that we have designed and built over 25 years of profession. As the book is designed for a young audience, possibly architecture students, it´s in...
Conversa al voltant del llibre
The College of Architects used to publish some books around the presentations of some outstanding books presented at the Architectural Association with the interventions of those who presented it....
Living and Working Architecture
Inhabiting, building, thinking ... They say of novelists that they are always writing a single novel, like architects that we always do a single work. And, perhaps, it is true. It will not be but...
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