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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
  1. The Dark Line, Building of the year 2023
  2. Building of the year, METALOCUS 2023
  3. Future Prologue
  4. Fontán, Building of the Year 2022
  5. A resplendent BIAU, proposing exits from the labyrinth
  6. Flow of views and movements. Renovation of Benavente's town hall by José Juan Barba
  7. Vertical Component. Centre for the Research and Interpretation of Rivers, Órbigo, Tera and Esla by José Juan Barba
  8. Countryside Post-Pandemic by Rem Koolhaas
  9. Countryside, The Future. A new manifesto by Rem Koolhaas, extremely frightening and also exhilarating
  10. ANYWAY CONGRESS. The city of the cities, by José Juan Barba
  11. Urbanism in the Bauhaus. Ludwig Hilberseimer
  12. Bauhaus100 vs Mies on Scene In the School of Architecture of Alcala
  13. Should the Penguin Pool be restored for historical value, or should it exist only as images of an utopia?
  14. "Beware of doctors" ... or better ... of Stephen Bayley
  15. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006 by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond
  16. Seattle Central Library by OMA. "The most exciting new building"
  17. New life for the BBVA of Sáenz de Oiza renovated by Ruíz Barbarín. Photographic essay by Imagen Subliminal
  18. Completed, Zaha Hadid Architects' 520 West 28th building in Chelsea
  19. Buildings by age in four Spanish cities. Madrid, Las Palmas, Barcelona and Valladolid
  20. Fervor da Metrópole by José Manuel Ballester
  21. FERNANDO ALDA. Architecture Photographer
  22. After 10 years. In tribute to Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic for The New York Times
  23. A fun couple of architects who interact with architecture
  24. Future is now, and more...
  25. After 17 years, Javier Sáenz de Oiza's BBVA Tower, is proclaimed BIC
  26. On Yona Friedman a conversation with José Juan Barba
  27. ‘Batcave’, Brooklyn Temple of Graffiti will be turn into an art production factory by Herzog & de Meuron
  28. The bewilderment of some gurus by the choice of good Pritzkers
  29. Recovering Bijlmermeer memory, deFlat Kleiburg by NL Architects and XVW architectuur
  30. Shoes, Phsyco, Bordeaux or neglect with Guzmán House by Alejandro de la Sota
  31. Leonardo Benevolo dies at age 93
  32. Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. Third Istanbul Design Biennial
  33. Revisiting the Maison à Bordeaux / Lemoine by Rem Koolhaas
  34. Rainbow of fabrics for LACMA by Zumthor and The aggregation of structuralized “objects” by Kuma
  35. Mass media and Architecture
  36. Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, master of Mexican architecture
  37. Was as angry the Frank Lloyd Wright's letter to Thomas H. Truslow Jr.?
  38. Koolhaas defends Europe
  39. Foster, Koolhaas or Souto de Moura Among the finalists for the Salón de Reinos of the Prado Museum
  40. Jørn Utzon's saga with the Sydney Opera house coming to the big screen
  41. Louis Kahn's Yale Center for British Art reopened to the public
  42. Naos vs José Juan Barba. Book signing at Madrid's Book Fair
  43. A different vision of the Golden Lion Pavilion
  44. Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design
  45. MIMA is open on the 1st and 5th of May
  46. 30 years of reconstruction of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
  47. #positions, by José Juan Barba
  48. Fire damaged Mackintosh building in 3D
  49. Zaha Hadid dies, the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture
  50. Learning through Making. Another way of making architecture
  51. Anti Constant or the embourgeoisement of ideas
  52. Drawing ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association
  53. New York after winter storm Jonas
  54. Where are you going, Pritzker?
  55. El futuro proyecta luz, el pasado solo sombras
  56. Sunflowers vs 'Fresh articles,' 'very fresh'
  57. La Mansana de la Discòrdia in the Lleó i Morera House.
  58. Siza x Siza. Questions in the air
  59. 80 years of Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright
  60. 10 deaths of architects
  61. IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center by OMA
  62. Saarinen’s TWA Terminal by Max Touhey
  63. Launch of 'Invenciones' by José Juan Barba, in Barcelona
  64. RCR Arquitectes, Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture of France
  65. New elections, new winners, new dean... new COAM?
  66. Years of horrors, disappointments, failures and uncertainties
  67. "Architecture is technique and art responding to society's requirements".
  68. Book Launch: Invenciones, by José Juan Barba
  69. OPENING PRADA FONDAZIONE by OMA
  70. Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi
  71. Salir por la tangente o Escuelas de Arquitectura como hongos.
  72. Inside Outside/Petra Blaisse, Sonneveld House². Other vision on Dutch Modernity
  73. 10 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Nominated to UNESCO World Heritage List
  74. Frida Kahlo – Her photos
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House to reopen on February
  76. Smart Cities. called "smart" but condemned to being stupid
  77. A new life for TWA Terminal
  78. Rebellion, jealousy and uprising
  79. DAVID FRUTOS. 10 Fundamental Photographers. On site. Architecture
  80. Frank O. Gehry, a singular trajectory
  81. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  82. Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces
  83. Ullastret revisited by Jordi Bernadó
  84. The millennium's most important building: The Seagram building
  85. YONA FRIEDMAN. La Dissolution de l'Architecture
  86. A little bit of Chauvinism, please!
  87. Tracking Time by Camilo José Vergara
  88. FROZEN, PARALYZED ... CASTLES IN THE AIR
  89. "PLACES IN THE INTERIOR" II. RETO HALME
  90. ¿Anyway Architecture,? Mies 2013
  91. ¿DÓNDE VAS COAM?
  92. TOYO ITO. PRITZKER FOR A SMART ARCHITECT
  93. ‘Batman: Death by Design’. Batman vs. Eurovegas
  94. "Derives city, impossible cartographies", by Esther Pizarro
  95. IN TREATMENT [>2] METALOCUS
  96. SUR-REALISTA. PROPOSAL FOR THE PORT and BAHIA IN CADIZ
  97. The golden decade of the anime stays in Madrid this summer
  98. "Architectural Vanguards in the XXI Century"
  99. Architectural Vanguards in the XXI Century
  100. MINIMUM DWELLING / VIVIENDA MÍNIMA
  101. Deconstructing the Generic City by José Juan Barba
  102. COLLECTIVES AND MORE
  103. The Last Dutch. Rem Koolhaas and the city
  104. Manuel de Solà-Morales DIES
  105. Luis Moreno Mansilla dies in Barcelona
  106. DAVID CHIPPERFIELD, and Hepworth Wakefield
  107. TORRE TELEFÓNICA. DIAGONAL 00
  108. One market. One formule. A mural by Isamu Noguchi
  109. Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
  110. Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… by Rem Koolhaas
  111. PRAGMATISM WITH FEATHERS, IMAGINARY POOL, FLYING MAGAZINE
  112. Not Only The Need (1957)
  113. MUGARRIA. Límite natural y urbano
  114. IN TREATMENT - METALOCUS
  115. METALOCUS ARCHITECTURE. ONTOLOGICAL SPACE
  116. Quaderns: new management team
  117. Map of Scientific Collaborations between researchers
  118. ¡New QUADERNS! and some Questions (¿?) without answers (¿?)
  119. Facebook world: What's missing from this picture?
  120. "...Y AL PASAR POR LA GRAN VÍA..." by Enrique Sáenz de San Pedro
  121. MOBILITY MAPS
  122. BALLESTER NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
  123. REM KOOLHAAS and MOSCOW
  124. MAXXI WON STIRLING 2010
  125. CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRASILIA
  126. COMPETITION "GRAN VÍA POSIBLE"
  127. 26=X>10+1 METALOCUS. 10 years 25 issues