Panta Rhei - πάντα ρει

The Galerie d´Architecture in Paris held and exhibition about the development process of the work by Mateo arquitectura, the office of Josep Lluís Mateo and now the catalogue of such event is released. Beyond a book with pictures of finished projects, they want to show some of their material produced as previous methods to the final building.

Project: Redesign for the Zoological Gardens in Vincennes, Paris. France, 1993. Panta Rhei, courtesy of Mateo arquitectura.

"Panta Rhei", everything flows, a catalogue that takes a photographic journey round the universe of the agency is already available after the exhibition hosted by the Galerie d’Architecture, in Manteaux, Paris, from 19 March to 13 April 2013, which addresses various aspects of the recent work of the European agency mateoarquitectura. This catalogue presents a look at time, at various key moments in the creation of 11 projects.

Excerpt from Panta Rhei by Josep Lluís Mateo.

The exhibition brings together a broad selection of materials related to aspects of its present-day praxis, characterized by the multiplicity of settings where the project is to take root and the ongoing tension between idea and matter as a support for form.

“(...) The present that leads us to the future, projects that are already being transported to reality. Also, the present of that which is clearly finished, and a trace of the past that has brought us to this point. An exhibition allows us to salvage, for a moment, materials produced in different contexts, to support ideas, explain stories or understand a world.

Its ephemeral function plays one of the most important roles here: models, videos, drawings, texts, in our case always instrumental, subordinate to the reality of buildings that ultimately have to be understood and appreciated without them.

Materials that anticipated stories, some just dreamt of. (...)”

CREDITS.-

Title.- Panta Rhei.
Author.- Josep Lluís Mateo.
Publisher.- Key Media S.L. Barcerlona.
Language.- English.
Year.- 2013.

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Work in progress: Cultural Center in Castelo Branco. Portugal. Panta Rhei, courtesy of Mateo arquitectura. Photography ©Adrià Goula.

Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona. Spain, 2012. Panta Rhei, courtesy of Mateo arquitectura. Photography ©Adrià Goula.

Work in progress: Urban development of Grand Arénas, Nice. France. Panta Rhei, courtesy of Mateo arquitectura.

Cover. Panta Rhei, courtesy of Mateo arquitectura.

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JOSEP LLUÍS MATEO

Josep Lluís Mateo was born in Barcelona (1949) and graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.

Mateo’s practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, the new headquarters for PGGM Pension Fund Company in Zeist, Holland and the office building on the former site of Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, among others.

With each of his projects, Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms. He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.

Academic collaborations and teaching:
Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002. He has also taught and lectured at numerous institutions around the world, including Princeton, Columbia University in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo and ITESM Mexico. He was Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992. Josep Lluís Mateo is President since 2009 of the Board of Directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture. He has been a member of a number of juries and expert committees, including the Quality Committee of Barcelona City Council (2000-2008), and for prizes such as the European Landscape Award and the Thyssen Award.

Recent exhibitions and prizes:
The practice’s work has been exhibited on numerous occasions thanks to its international influence. New York’s MoMA devoted a space in the exhibition “Spain: On Site” (2006) to its apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project. Individual exhibitions include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona, 2009), Architekturgalerie Aedes (Berlin, 2004), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, 1998), Col•legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998),Galerie Fragner (Prague, 1998), Galerie Aedes (Berlin, 1994), Architekturgalerie Luzern (Luzern, 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich, 1991).

The work of Josep Lluís Mateo has been awarded many prizes, including:
- Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008, First Prize. Best International Convention Centre category.
Organized by C&IT magazine, London. Project: CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 2008 Archizinc Award, First Prize. Collective Housing category. Project: Sant Jordi Students’ Hall of Residence, Barcelona
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, Runner-up. Project: CCIB- Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura.