Enric Massip-Bosch (Barcelona, 1960), architect. Associate Professor of Design at the UPC since 1994. As a student, he worked at Shinohara Atelier, Japan (1987-1988). In 1991, he founded EMBA (Estudi Massip-Bosch Aquitectes), with which he has developed projects of various typologies in several countries. EMBA has won numerous international competitions and awards, including the 2011 LEAF AWARDS for Best World Office Building for the Diagonal ZeroZero skyscraper in Barcelona, and the 2009 ABITARE IL MEDITERRANEO Award for the redevelopment of Place République in Leucate, France. The monograph EMBA-ENRIC MASSIP-BOSCH: ARCHITECTURE 2005-2015 compiles the last 10 years of EMBA's projects (TC Cuadernos no. 121, December 2015). The publication of the new EMBA monograph, Architecture-Metamorphosis 2015-2025, is currently in preparation.
Founding member of the Barcelona Chapter of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Member of the Urban Habitat Advisory Council of the Barcelona City Council (2011-2015), member of the Urban Planning and Territory Commission of the 22@Network Association, member of the Italian National Agency for Evaluation of the University System and Research (Italian government, 2012-2015), and co-founder and director of the Master's Program in Urban Design, Building the City Now, offered in Barcelona and St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) since 2014, accredited by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTECH.
His work has been published in journals and books: Experimental Housing, 1971-1994 (Barcelona: Ediciones UPC, 1996), Architecture on the Horizon (London: RIBA, 1996), Concealed Complexities (Tokyo: TOTO, 1999), and Diagonal ZeroZero (Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2011). He was a co-founder and member of the editorial board of WAM-Web Architecture Magazine (1996-2001). He is currently working on a compilation of his articles, published under the title "Minima Enciclopedia" in the journal El Temps de les Arts, Edicions 3i4, Valencia.
Visiting professor at schools in various cities around the world, he has given lectures and participated in seminars in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Valladolid, Mérida, Vigo, Tokyo, Kawasaki, Chiba, Kyoto, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Rosario, New York, Miami, Budapest, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Vienna, Paris, Bergamo, Milan, Piacenza, Pescara, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Matera, Porto, Bucharest, Izhevsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
