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Barcelona practice wins National Architecture Prize
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña y Elías Torres Tur
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña y Elías Torres Tur awarded the National Architectural Prize for 2016.
The Ministerio de Fomento (Ministry of National Development) has awarded the National Architecture Award for the year 2016 to the Barcelona based José Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres Tur architecture studio, announced in December 2017. The jury recognizes the professional career of these architects, “authors of an extensive body of work over a long joint career that will soon celebrate fifty years of continuing collaboration, during which they have tackled projects of all kinds, from the problematic suburban issues to international commissions, in which they were pioneers in our country. Among their projects that includes public and avant-garde architecture, is the construction and renovation of some of the most significant public spaces of Spanish architecture in recent decades. Always employing a fresh language, which combines civic commitment with a respectful attitude towards the landscape and the historical city, an example of innovation and constant research.”
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Centro Cultural del Carme, Badalona
Photo: Lourdes Jansana
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Casa Gili, one of Lapaña Torres' first important projects
Photo: Lluís Casals
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The photovoltaic pergola, El Forum 2004, Barcelona
Photo: Cristina Fontsaré
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Entrance to the Saint Gaietà Church, Palma de Majorca
Photo: Lourdes Jansana
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Placa de la Constitució, Gerona
Photo: Lourdes Jansana
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Portrait of Retrato de José Antonio Martínez Lapeña y Elías Torres Tur
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña y Elías Torres Tur
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Tarragona, 1941. He trained as a Quantity Surveyor in Barcelona, where he graduated in 1962 and then studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), and graduated as an architect in 1968. That same year, he formed a professional association with Elías Torres Tur, which remains until today. Martínez Lapeña worked as Project Professor at the ETSAB from 1969 to 1971 and from 1978 to 1983, at the School of Architecture of Vallés (ETSAV) from 1983 to 2008 and, since 1998, he teaches at the ETSA Ramon Llull. In 2001 and 2008 he was professor of the Architecture Masters at ETSA Pamplona.
Elías Torres Tur, Ibiza, 1944. He studied at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), graduating in 1968, like Martínez Lapeña, and immediately established his professional architecture studio. In 1993 he obtained his doctorate at that same school. He was studio professor for projects and landscape architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona from 1969 to 2014. He has also been a visiting professor at American universities, such as UCLA and Harvard University. Elías Torres published the Architecture Guide of Ibiza and Formentera in 1980. Among his most recent works is, I would have preferred to invite you to dinner (2006) and Luz zenital (2005). Torres was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize in 2008.
