The discussion-presentation is part of the "Medit_Urban. Mutación y Proyecto en el Espacio_Ciudad Mediterráneo", organized by the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Venue: Fórum de Fnac Callao. C/Preciados 28, 28013 - Madrid.
Date: April 19, 2012, 7.00 pm.
Joan Busquets Grau recently received a few days ago, the Special Grand Prize of Urbanism 2011 that gives the French Government.
He was born in El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1946. Joan Busquets was born in 1946 in El Prat de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. In 1969 he graduated from the School of Architecture, Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), University of Technology of Catalonia. Busquets was Professor of Town Planning in the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona from 1979 until 2002. Since 2002 he has been a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and holds the chair of Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design. In addition, he has been visiting professor at several universities.
His firm BAU - B Arquitectura i Urbanisme SL- is based in Barcelona. He was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, "in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning."
Below is a selection of Busquets' works: Masterplan for the city of La Coruna, Spain, 2008. Grotius Place, The Hague, 1992–2005. Forum Visue, Visue, Portugal, 2003–2005. Housing complex Maquinista and block H1-MAQ, Barcelona, 1998-2002. Community center and block E, Nesselande, Rotterdam, 2002. Centre Plan Helmond, 2005. Masterplan Spoorzone Delft, 1999 (in progress). Fira de Barcelona - Pedrosa L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, 1992–1996.
