Joan Busquets

Prof. Joan Busquets

JOAN BUSQUETS. Architect, Urban planner and Chair Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design - GSD, Harvard University since 2002 Before he was professor at School of Architecture in Barcelona UPC-ETSAB. Founder of LUB Barcelona.

A world-renowned urban planner, urban designer and architect, Busquets served as Head of Urban Planning for the Barcelona City Council in the preparations for the Barcelona Olympics 1992. Urban projects in The Hague, Delft, Geneva, Rotterdam, Toledo, Lisbon and Toulouse among others around the world like Singapore, Shanghai, Ningbo and Sao Paulo. Awarded with the 2012 Paris Grand Prix Spécial de l'Urbanisme (France) and 2011 Erasmus prize (The Netherlands). Elected Full Member of the Académie d'Architecture de France (2016). In 2021 he was awarded with the Patrick Abercrombie Prize from the UIA.

Busquets has published many books, including: L’Urbanització marginal (1999), Toledo y su futuro/ Toledo and its Future (2000), Barcelona, Ciutat Vella: un pasado con futuro (2003), Bringing the Harvard Yards to the River (2004), Six projects for Downtown's Den Haag (2004), Barcelona: the Urban Evolution of a Compact City (2005), New Orleans. Strategies for a City in Soft Land (2005) , A Coruña: a nova ciudade marítima no porto/A Coruña: a maritime city in the port (2006) , Cities X-Lines: A new lens for the urbanistic project (2007), Cerdà and the Barcelona of the future, Reality Versus Design (2009), Maastricht Urban Surplus (2009), Shenzhen Designing the non-stop transformation city (2010), Spoorzone Delft-Railway Zone Public Space Design (2010), Joan Busquets -City in layers - Erasmus prize 2011 (2011), Niewe centrum, Nesselande, Roterdam (2011), Dunkerke projet de réaménagent du centre-ville (2012), Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon (2013), World Architecture Magazine n º 272 WA - Designing Urban Architecture: Joan Busquets+BAU/BLAU (2013), Barcelona: the Urban Evolution of a Compact City (2014), Toulouse - Identité et partage du centre-ville (2014), Barcelona: the evolution of a compact city (Chinese Edition) (2016), Hangzhou Underlays: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block (Redesigning Gridded Cities) (2017), Manhattan Framework: Rectangular Grid for Ordering an Island (Redesigning Gridded Cities) (2017), Chicago Boundless: Two Grids Between Lake and River (Redesigning Gridded Cities) (2017), Barcelona Collage: Manifold Grids and the Place of Cerda (Redesigning Gridded Cities) (2017), ), Savannah: Rethinking the multi-scalar capacity of the city project (2018) and Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design (2019).

Professionally based in Barcelona since the 1970s, His firm BAU B. Arquitectura i Urbanisme SLP was founded in 1992 in Barcelona and has designed and executed projects in Europe. His firm BLAU B. Landscape Arquitectura y Urbanismo SL was founded in 2008 in Barcelona/Shanghai and has designed and executed projects in China. Busquets received his degree in architecture (1969) and his doctoral degree (1975) by the Architecture School of Barcelona ETSAB - UPC.

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