Josep Llinàs, winner of the CSCAE Gold Medal for Architecture

The architect Josep Llinàs (Castellò de la Plana, 1945) wins the most prestigious distinction of those awarded by the profession in our country: the Gold Medal for Architecture. Established by the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) in 1981, the Gold Medal for Architecture recognizes the efforts of people and institutions that ennoble architectural work with their work.

In his opinion, the Jury highlights “his serene work, his valuable intervention in existing architecture and his attention to the quality of the urban environment, current references of which he is a precursor.” He emphasizes that the quality of his work transmits to new generations “permanent values, useful for society,” and, along the same lines, he concludes, highlighting “teaching work understood as a profession and the profession as an academy in itself.”

In recent years, the Gold Medal for Architecture has been awarded to César Portela (2023), Carme Pinòs y Carlos Puente (2022), Alberto Campo Baeza (2019), Victor López Cotelo and Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (2016), Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz (2014)...

The Jury that decided to award the Gold Medal for Architecture to Josep Llinàs was made up of the first vice president of the CSCAE, Juan Antonio Ortiz Orueta, as president of the Jury; the deans of the associations of architects of León and Madrid, Eva Testa San Juan and Sigfrido Herráez, respectively, both by designation of the Plenary of Councilors of the CSCAE; the second vice president of the CSCAE, Moisés Castro Oporto, appointed by the CSCAE Government Team; architect Ángela García de Paredes, full academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando; the architect Marta Pelegrín, appointed by the Plenary Session of the CSCAE; Remei Capdevila-Werning, philosopher and critic in Architecture, by appointment of the CSCAE Awards and Distinctions Working Group, and the general secretary of the CSCAE, Laureano Matas, with voice, but without vote.

The presentation of the Gold Medal for Architecture will take place on June 20, during a gala, at the Reina Victoria Theater, in Madrid, in which the winners of the 2024 ARQUITECTURA Awards and the Alejandro Foundation will be revealed. de la Sota will receive the “Architect Lluís Comerón Graupera” Award.

Jaume Fuster Library by Josep Llinàs. Photography by Duccio Malagamba.

Library in cTorrent de l'Olla by Josep Llinàs. Cortesía por Josep Llinàs.

Ocular Microsurgery Institute in Barcelona by Josep Llinàs. Photography by Duccio Malagamba.

L'Atlàntida de Vic by Josep Llinàs. Photography by Duccio Malagamba.

Model. Campus of the National University in Bogotá by Josep Llinàs.

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Josep Llinás

Josep Llinás is a Valencian architect born in Castellón. He later taught there, as well as at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés and the Ramon Llull University.

He has published studies on Josep Maria Jujol and José Antonio Coderch, and has collaborated on several projects with the architect Alejandro de la Sota, such as the construction of a building at the Spanish embassy in Paris.

He has won the FAD Interior Design Award (1976), the City of Barcelona Award (1995) for his apartment building on Carmen Street in Barcelona, and the FAD Architecture Award (1996) for the restoration of the Metropol Theatre in Tarragona. His works include a residential building in Berga (1977), CAP in Ripollet (1985), Municipal Library in Vila-seca (1986), Library and departments of the Escola de Enginyers de Camins de Barcelona (1989), Director's Building of the Facultat de Informàtica de Barcelona (1995), Vila-seca Town Hall (1996), the classroom building and bar of the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona (1996), the Central Library of Terrassa (1997), the Torre del Far in Torredembarra (2000) and the Pit-roig Centre in Barcelona (2001).

Published on: May 14, 2024

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