Beth Galí

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Elisabeth Galí i Camprubí , known as Beth Galí , (* 1950 in Barcelona ) is a Catalan designer , architect and landscape architect .

education

From 1966 to 1969 Galí studied industrial design at the Escuela de Diseño Eina in Barcelona. In 1982, at the age of 32, she graduated from the Escuela de Arquitectura de Barcelona as an architect . Galí was a student of Federico Correa at Eina and Alfons Milá at ETSAB , which she sees as important sources of inspiration for her work.

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Biblioteca Joan Miró, Barcelona

From 1982 to 1988 Galí worked as an urban planner in the city administration of Barcelona and planned, among others, the Parque de Joan Miró (1982-1989) and the Biblioteca Joan Miró (1990) as well as the Túnel de la Rovira with Màrius Quintana and Joan Antoni Solanas .

From 1988 to 1992 she was deputy director of the municipal institution for urban development and the Olympic Games in charge of the Olympic facilities on Montjuïc , Diagonal and Vall d'Hebron . During this time she created a memorial for the victims of Franquism and the tomb for Lluís Companys on the Cementiri de Montjuïc (1991-1992) and the park in Migdia (1988-1992).

St. Patrick's Street, Cork

Abroad, she designed the pedestrian zones St. Patrick's Street and Grand Parade Street in Cork (1999), in the old town of 's-Hertogenbosch (1993–1998), Roermond (1995–1998) and Dublin (2002) as well as the bicycle stand Bici Linea for the redesign of the Piet Smit shipyard in Rotterdam (1996). In Germany in 2010, she redesigned the public spaces of the Überseequartier , the two banks of the Magdeburg harbor and St.-Annen-Platz in Hamburg's HafenCity .

Beach promenade at the Forum in Barcelona
Parque de Zafra, Huelva

In Spain, Galí designed the Parque de Zafra in Huelva (1994) and the beach promenade at the Fòrum (2004) in Barcelona .

In 2018, Galí won a lawsuit against the state of Qatar after copies of one of their street lamps were installed on one of the main streets of Doha .

Teaching

From 1994 to 2004 she taught urban planning at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona and was visiting professor at universities abroad, including the universities of Lausanne , Delft and Harvard .

Awards and honorary positions

Galí's street lamp Lamparaalta was awarded in 1984 by the Catalan designers association ADI-FAD . In 1999 she received the Dutch City Planning Award. In 2003 she was accepted by the French government into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2005 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Catalan government .

From 2001 to 2009 she headed the Catalan design association Fomento de las Artes Decorativas .

family

Galí is the granddaughter of Francesc Galí , a Catalan painter and teacher of Joan Miró . She is married to the architect Oriol Bohigas and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Galí i Camprubí  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marciani, Florencia: Beth Galí1950 ( es ) In: Un día, una arquitecta . August 15, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Manzano, Belén: Beth Galí, arquitecta . In: A contracorriente: 18 mujeres en primera linea . Fundacion Francisco Ferrer, 1992, ISBN 978-84-87064-10-4 , pp. 61-68 (Spanish).
  3. ^ Grossman, Luis: BETH GALI: una propuesta de arquitectura y paisajismo ( es ) In: La Nación . May 11, 2005. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Open space planning in Hafencity: The Barcelona parliamentary group. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. September 28, 2008, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Toni Muñoz: Qatar, condenado por plagiar unas farolas de Beth Galí ( es ) In: La Vanguardia . Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  6. ^ JG Albalat: La arquitecta Beth Galí demanda a Catar por el plagio de sus farolas ( es ) In: El Periodico . June 30, 2012. Accessed December 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Galí, Beth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galí i Camprubí, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan designer, architect and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona