December 20, 1925 - Oriol Bohigas

His approach to architecture lies in its balance between urban scope and architectural scale

Oriol Bohigas

Oriol Bohigas is a world famous Catalan architect, urban planner. He has worked in the city of Barcelona for most of his career. Bohigas frequently publishes articles in media and is an author of considerable number of books. 

He is one of the personalities interviewed in the documentary Europa Ciudad (Europe City), was President of the Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space in the 2000 and 2004 awards. Also Bohigas was selected President of the Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space in the 2000 and 2004 awards.The main key to his approach to architecture and urban planning lies in its balance between urban scope and architectural scale.

Museu Del Disseny, Barcelona

In the 1960's Barcelona was a city with industrial spirit and a vocational call for services from which was born  new economic boom with a fizz that was needed to be channeled. The renewal of Barcelona has avoided the monotony of modern planning by playing down all embracing master plans in favor to individual master plans of architects, as it is in some cases of  with brutalist architecture.This was the perfect time and place for a group of new architects to act, because they were able to look at modernism and see its lack of pragmatism. He was a man who put his money where his mouth-  following his article 'Una posible Escuela de Barcelona' (revista Arquitectura, 1969), and funded the movement known as 'La Escuela de Barcelona'. The movement defined itself with intentions to re-imagine architecture, with a modern twist and the wish to include current international trends.

Oriol Bohigas works include:

Olympic Village and Port in Barcelona,

Officesw at Palau Nou de la Rambla in Barcelona,

Pompeau Fabra University in Barcelona, 

Redevelopment of the waterfront, Falconara  in Italy,

Urban redevelopment plan for apartments, shops and offices for the De Cecco factory in Pescara, Italy,

Sextius Mirabeau district, Aix-en-Provence in France.