Author:
"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.
More articles
- The Dark Line, Building of the year 2023
- Building of the year, METALOCUS 2023
- Future Prologue
- Fontán, Building of the Year 2022
- A resplendent BIAU, proposing exits from the labyrinth
- Flow of views and movements. Renovation of Benavente's town hall by José Juan Barba
- Vertical Component. Centre for the Research and Interpretation of Rivers, Órbigo, Tera and Esla by José Juan Barba
- Countryside Post-Pandemic by Rem Koolhaas
- Countryside, The Future. A new manifesto by Rem Koolhaas, extremely frightening and also exhilarating
- ANYWAY CONGRESS. The city of the cities, by José Juan Barba
- Urbanism in the Bauhaus. Ludwig Hilberseimer
- Bauhaus100 vs Mies on Scene In the School of Architecture of Alcala
- Should the Penguin Pool be restored for historical value, or should it exist only as images of an utopia?
- "Beware of doctors" ... or better ... of Stephen Bayley
- Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006 by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond
- Seattle Central Library by OMA. "The most exciting new building"
- New life for the BBVA of Sáenz de Oiza renovated by Ruíz Barbarín. Photographic essay by Imagen Subliminal
- Completed, Zaha Hadid Architects' 520 West 28th building in Chelsea
- Buildings by age in four Spanish cities. Madrid, Las Palmas, Barcelona and Valladolid
- Fervor da Metrópole by José Manuel Ballester
- FERNANDO ALDA. Architecture Photographer
- After 10 years. In tribute to Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic for The New York Times
- A fun couple of architects who interact with architecture
- Future is now, and more...
- After 17 years, Javier Sáenz de Oiza's BBVA Tower, is proclaimed BIC
- On Yona Friedman a conversation with José Juan Barba
- ‘Batcave’, Brooklyn Temple of Graffiti will be turn into an art production factory by Herzog & de Meuron
- The bewilderment of some gurus by the choice of good Pritzkers
- Recovering Bijlmermeer memory, deFlat Kleiburg by NL Architects and XVW architectuur
- Shoes, Phsyco, Bordeaux or neglect with Guzmán House by Alejandro de la Sota
- Leonardo Benevolo dies at age 93
- Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. Third Istanbul Design Biennial
- Revisiting the Maison à Bordeaux / Lemoine by Rem Koolhaas
- Rainbow of fabrics for LACMA by Zumthor and The aggregation of structuralized “objects” by Kuma
- Mass media and Architecture
- Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, master of Mexican architecture
- Was as angry the Frank Lloyd Wright's letter to Thomas H. Truslow Jr.?
- Koolhaas defends Europe
- Foster, Koolhaas or Souto de Moura Among the finalists for the Salón de Reinos of the Prado Museum
- Jørn Utzon's saga with the Sydney Opera house coming to the big screen
- Louis Kahn's Yale Center for British Art reopened to the public
- Naos vs José Juan Barba. Book signing at Madrid's Book Fair
- A different vision of the Golden Lion Pavilion
- Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design
- MIMA is open on the 1st and 5th of May
- 30 years of reconstruction of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
- #positions, by José Juan Barba
- Fire damaged Mackintosh building in 3D
- Zaha Hadid dies, the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture
- Learning through Making. Another way of making architecture
- Anti Constant or the embourgeoisement of ideas
- Drawing ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association
- New York after winter storm Jonas
- Where are you going, Pritzker?
- El futuro proyecta luz, el pasado solo sombras
- Sunflowers vs 'Fresh articles,' 'very fresh'
- La Mansana de la Discòrdia in the Lleó i Morera House.
- Siza x Siza. Questions in the air
- 80 years of Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright
- 10 deaths of architects
- IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center by OMA
- Saarinen’s TWA Terminal by Max Touhey
- Launch of 'Invenciones' by José Juan Barba, in Barcelona
- RCR Arquitectes, Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture of France
- New elections, new winners, new dean... new COAM?
- Years of horrors, disappointments, failures and uncertainties
- "Architecture is technique and art responding to society's requirements".
- Book Launch: Invenciones, by José Juan Barba
- OPENING PRADA FONDAZIONE by OMA
- Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi
- Salir por la tangente o Escuelas de Arquitectura como hongos.
- Inside Outside/Petra Blaisse, Sonneveld House². Other vision on Dutch Modernity
- 10 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Nominated to UNESCO World Heritage List
- Frida Kahlo – Her photos
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House to reopen on February
- Smart Cities. called "smart" but condemned to being stupid
- A new life for TWA Terminal
- Rebellion, jealousy and uprising
- DAVID FRUTOS. 10 Fundamental Photographers. On site. Architecture
- Frank O. Gehry, a singular trajectory
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces
- Ullastret revisited by Jordi Bernadó
- The millennium's most important building: The Seagram building
- YONA FRIEDMAN. La Dissolution de l'Architecture
- A little bit of Chauvinism, please!
- Tracking Time by Camilo José Vergara
- FROZEN, PARALYZED ... CASTLES IN THE AIR
- "PLACES IN THE INTERIOR" II. RETO HALME
- ¿Anyway Architecture,? Mies 2013
- ¿DÓNDE VAS COAM?
- TOYO ITO. PRITZKER FOR A SMART ARCHITECT
- ‘Batman: Death by Design’. Batman vs. Eurovegas
- "Derives city, impossible cartographies", by Esther Pizarro
- IN TREATMENT [>2] METALOCUS
- SUR-REALISTA. PROPOSAL FOR THE PORT and BAHIA IN CADIZ
- The golden decade of the anime stays in Madrid this summer
- "Architectural Vanguards in the XXI Century"
- Architectural Vanguards in the XXI Century
- MINIMUM DWELLING / VIVIENDA MÍNIMA
- Deconstructing the Generic City by José Juan Barba
- COLLECTIVES AND MORE
- The Last Dutch. Rem Koolhaas and the city
- Manuel de Solà-Morales DIES
- Luis Moreno Mansilla dies in Barcelona
- DAVID CHIPPERFIELD, and Hepworth Wakefield
- TORRE TELEFÓNICA. DIAGONAL 00
- One market. One formule. A mural by Isamu Noguchi
- Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
- Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… by Rem Koolhaas
- PRAGMATISM WITH FEATHERS, IMAGINARY POOL, FLYING MAGAZINE
- Not Only The Need (1957)
- MUGARRIA. Límite natural y urbano
- IN TREATMENT - METALOCUS
- METALOCUS ARCHITECTURE. ONTOLOGICAL SPACE
- Quaderns: new management team
- Map of Scientific Collaborations between researchers
- ¡New QUADERNS! and some Questions (¿?) without answers (¿?)
- Facebook world: What's missing from this picture?
- "...Y AL PASAR POR LA GRAN VÍA..." by Enrique Sáenz de San Pedro
- MOBILITY MAPS
- BALLESTER NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
- REM KOOLHAAS and MOSCOW
- MAXXI WON STIRLING 2010
- CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRASILIA
- COMPETITION "GRAN VÍA POSIBLE"
- 26=X>10+1 METALOCUS. 10 years 25 issues