Óscar Tusquets
Óscar Tusquets , also Óscar Tusquets Blanca and Òscar Tusquets i Guillèn , (born June 14, 1941 in Barcelona , Spain ) is a Spanish architect , painter , designer and publisher from Catalonia .
Life
Tusquets went to the German School in Barcelona and then attended the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona. He studied at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). In 1964 he founded together with Lluís Clotet the Studio PER , which lasted until the 1984th In 1987 he entered an architectural community with the architect Carlos Díaz , which also carried out projects in Japan and Germany.
Tusquets is a founding member of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya .
Tusquets founded the publishing house Tusquets Editores in 1968 together with his sister Esther Tusquets (1936–2012) and his wife at the time, the writer Beatriz de Moura . It also publishes in Mexico and Argentina and has been awarding the Premio Tusquets de Novela for novels in Spanish (castellano) since 2005, which is endowed with an amount of 20,000 euros. From 1979 to 2004 Tusquets Editores awarded the Premio de La Sonrisa Vertical , the price of the vertical smile , for erotic literature, which was discontinued due to the persistent lack of quality of the manuscripts submitted.
Prizes and awards
- 1979: Premio Delta de Oro des Fomento de los Artes y del Diseño (FAD).
- 1987: Creu de Sant Jordi Prize in the Architecture category.
Architecture projects
- 1980: Expansion of the Medical Faculty of the University of Barcelona .
- 1981–1983: New construction of the Banco de España in Girona .
- 1982: Renovation of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.
- Urban development project for the Convent dels Àngels district in Barcelona.
- 1988–1992: Summer Olympics 1992 : Construction of the Villa Olímpica in Barcelona.
- 1990–1994: Participation in the BUSSTOPS art project with the tram stop at the Hanover Congress Center .
- 2007: Torre Copisa in Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona.
Other works
- Sculpture Salvador Dalí at the entrance to Dalí's hometown Figueres .
- 1974: Banco Catalano outdoor bench .
Exhibitions
- 1979 Transformations in Modern Architecture , Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 1980 Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1990 Exposición Oscar Tusquets - Objects dans le Parc , Paris
Publications
- Más que discutible. 1994.
- Todo it comparable. 1998.
- Dios lo ve. 2000.
- Dalí y otros amigos. 2003.
- Contra la desnudez. 2007.
- Amables personajes , essays. Editorial Acantilado, Barcelona 2009, ISBN 978-84-16011-08-7 . Relaunched in 2014.
- Barcelona. Text by Rafael Chirbes and Óscar Tusquets et al. Corso Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86260-019-9 .
- with Esther Tusquets: Tiempos que fueron. , Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona 2012, ISBN 978-84-02-42090-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 256; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
- ↑ The true Eternal City. In: FAZ . February 2, 2012, p. R4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tusquets, Óscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tusquets Blanca, Óscar (full name); Tusquets i Guillèn, Òscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish architect, painter, designer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |