Joan Busquets
Joan Busquets i Grau (born 26 July 1946 in El Prat de Llobregat) is a Spanish architect, urban planner, and educator. Busquets is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is founder of the architecture firm, BAU Barcelona.
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Joan Busquets i Grau (born 26 July 1946 in El Prat de Llobregat) is a Spanish architect, urban planner, and educator. Busquets is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is founder of the architecture firm, BAU Barcelona.
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Joan Busquets (born 1946) is a Spanish architect, university teacher and urban planner. The architect was born Joan Busquets Grau in El Prat de Llobregat.
Joan Busquets studied at Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The architect worked for Harvard University and Polytechnic University of Catalonia and is a member of Académie d'architecture.
Languages used include Spanish and Valencia. Joan Busquets received Abercrombie Prize and Erasmus Prize.
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Busquets was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for exceptional contributions to European culture and society, "..in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning."
Born in El Prat de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona, Busquets graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1969. He was Professor of Town Planning at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 1979 until 2002. Since 2002, he has been the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was a visiting professor at Harvard from 1989 to 1993 and in 1997. Busquets headed the Planning Department of the Municipality of Barcelona from 1983 to 1989 and during the preparations for the 1992 Summer Olympics there.
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Toulouse City Center, Toulouse, France (2012-2017) A Coruña Masterplan, A Coruña, Spain (2008) Helmond City Center, Helmond, Netherlands (2005) Grotiusplaats, The Hague, Netherlands (1992–2005) Forum Viseu, Viseu, Portugal (2003–2005) Nesselande Community Center, Nesselande, Netherlands (2002) Maquinista Housing Complex, Barcelona, Spain (1998-2002)
Joan Busquets (Erasmus Prize 2011, the Netherlands).
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Erasmus Prize (2011) Old seal of City of Trento, 2008 The Catedra Lluis Barragán, TECM. Guadalajara Mexico, 2007 ICSS Price for building the Chiado in Lisbon, 2001 Premio Gubbio, European Prize, 2000 National Award 1996 for the redevelopment plan for Toledo, 1996 Spanish National Planning Award for a masterplan for Lerida, 1985 Spanish National Planning Award for urban design for Sant Josep, Barcelona, 1981
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- Barcelona: Evolución urbanística de una ciudad compacta, 1992,
- Barcelona, 1994,
- La urbanización marginal, 1999,
- Ciutat Vella de Barcelona: Un passat amb futur, 2004,
- Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design,2019,
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