José Zabala Rojí es arquitecto por la ESARQ-UIC, y arquitecto técnico por la UPC; inicia su experiencia profesional en la oficina de Claudi Aranyó (Barcelona), y posteriormente con Roberto Ercilla (Vitoria-Gasteiz). En 2007, establece su despacho profesional en Barcelona y colabora en varios proyectos con OAB (Carlos y Borja Ferrater). Es también co-autor del proyecto de consolidación de la “zona cero” del barrio barcelonés del Carmel, primer premio en el concurso de ideas convocado por la Agencia de Promoción del Carmel. Ha impartido varias ponencias sobre su trabajo en la ETSAB, en la ESARQ-UIC y recientemente, ha sido miembro de la comisión prospectiva de revisión del plan estratégico metropolitano de Barcelona en la sección de Jóvenes Arquitectos/Arquitecturas de Transferencia. En la actualidad, es profesor de proyectos en la ESARQ-UIC y trabaja para el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona en la redacción de propuestas para la transformación de la Avenida Paral·lel (Barcelona).
Guillermo López Ibañez es arquitecto por la ETSAB-UPC. Como tal ha trabajado en los estudios de Fornari-Rojas y Domingo+Ferre; en 2005 funda su propio estudio de arquitectura junto con Anna Puigjaner. Es miembro fundador del colectivo MAIO. Arquitecto colaborador en el Instituto Tecnológico de Cataluña ITEC, ha impartido clases y conferencias en la ETSAB-UPC, la ESARQ-UIC, la Escuela de Diseño BAU Escuela Massana. Actualmente combina su actividad profesional con la investigación como estudiante de doctorado en el Departamento de Historia y Teoría de la Arquitectura en la ETSAB-UPC.
Mario Ballesteros Arias es Master en Arquitectura y Cultura Urbana por la UPC/CCCB y licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales por el Colegio de México. Como editor e investigador, ha colaborado con despachos como LAR/Fernando Romero y Grupo de Diseño Urbano en la Ciudad de México, trabajando como editor en Actar y como comisario de exposición para el Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) en su muestra inaugural, Turisme: Espais de Ficció. Actualmente está a cargo de plataformas digitales y comunicaciones en el BIArch – Barcelona Institute of Architecture desde 2009. Mantiene un blog, Mañanarama, donde especula en torno a la producción y la historia arquitectónica moderna en México como producto del desarrollo distorsionado.
The COAC has announced the contest, which I had the honor of being a member of the jury, convened to elect the new leadership of the journal Quaderns. "The winning proposal was presented by Jose Zabala, Guillermo Lopez and Mario Ballesteros. The jury praised highly the quality of proposals submitted, the winner has highlighted, among other things, the solvency of the blog-web approach, the approach of "Arxiu history, " the interest of editorial and graphic innovative and optimistic TwoPoints.net hand. [Martin Lorenz, Lupi Asensio (Martin + Lupi = Twopoints.net)]
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José Juan Barba (1964). Architect from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in 1991. He received his PhD in Architecture from ETSAM in 2004, graduating summa Cum laude with the doctoral thesis "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi." In 1991, he received a Special Mention in the Spanish National Graduation Awards. Until 1997, he worked as an advisor to several NGOs. In 1992, he founded his architectural practice in Madrid (www.josejuanbarba.com).
He is an architectural critic and, since 1998, Editor-in-Chief of the internationally acclaimed bilingual architecture journal METALOCUS (Spanish/English), recipient of several national and international awards.
Barba is an Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá and a member of several research groups. He has been invited to participate in numerous international forums on architecture and urbanism, including the II Forum of Mexican World Heritage Cities, Urban Development, History and Modernity, organized by the Pan-American Committee for Urban Development and Historical Heritage; the World Urban Development Forum (FMDU), held in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico; and the International Conference on Architecture and Urbanism from the Perspective of Women Architects. He has also been invited as lecturer and guest critic at numerous national and international institutions, including the National Building Museum, Roma Tre University, Politecnico di Milano, University of Genoa, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, the Madrid and Barcelona Schools of Architecture, National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, the Schools of Architecture of Medellín and Ecuador, Universidad Iberoamericana, IE University, as well as the Schools of Architecture of Zaragoza, Valladolid, Málaga, Granada, Seville, and A Coruña, among others.
He has extensive professional experience in architecture, urbanism, landscape intervention, and territorial regeneration. His work has received numerous awards, including First Prize in the “Gran Vía Posible” competition for Delirious Gran Vía, Madrid; recognition for the Rivers Interpretation Centre in Zamora, awarded and exhibited at the World Architecture Festival 2008; and recognition for the Santa Bárbara Park project in Toledo. He was also awarded the Erich Degner Prize for Architecture (1995), promoted by the BBVA Foundation. His project for a Day Centre for the Elderly was included in Volume 3 of the Madrid Architecture Guide published by the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) in 2007. His work has been widely published in national and international books and journals.
He served as Maître de Conférences at the Institut d’Urbanisme de Grenoble, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, during the 2013–14 academic year, following his appointment through a European open competition. His work has been published internationally. He regularly serves on academic and professional juries, including the editorial competition jury for the journal Quaderns (2011), the selection committee for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards (2007–present), and the jury panels for EUROPAN 13 (2015–16) and TRANSFER, Zurich (2019). He was also invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part of the exhibition Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione.
He has authored several books, including "The Dark Line. michele&miquel, dA Vision Design" (2024), "CONGRESO ANYWAY. La ciudad de las ciudades" (2020), "#Positions" (2016), and "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi" (2015). He has also contributed to publications such as "Espacio público Gran Vía. La Ciudad del Turismo" (2020), "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione" (2016), "La manzana de la discordia" (2015), and "Contemporary Japanese Architecture: New Territories" (2015), as well as chapters in numerous books, including "Women Architects: A Professional Challenge" (2009), "21st Century Architectures" (2007), "Ruta de la Plata, New Conquerors of Space" (2019), and "The City of Tourism" (2020).
Selected awards include:
• “SANTIAGO AMÓN” AWARD, award for the promotion of architecture, COAM Madrid, 2000.
• “PANAYIOTI MIXELI AWARD,” SADAS-PEA, award for the promotion of architecture, Athens, 2005.
• “PIERRE VAGO” ICAC. International Committee of Art Critics Award, London, 2005.
• FAD Award 07, Ephemeral Interventions, First Prize, M.C. Escher Exhibition, Arquin-FAD, Barcelona, 2007.
• World Architecture Festival, Center for Research and Interpretation of the Rivers, Tera, Esla, and Órbigo, Finalist, Barcelona, 2008.
• Gran Vía Posible, First Prize, Delirious Gran Vía, Madrid, 2010.
• Reform of the Río Segura Surroundings, Award, Murcia, 2010.
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February 23, 2011
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"Quaderns: new management team" METALOCUS.
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