Òscar Tusquets

Òscar Tusquets studied at Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia and German School of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Spanish, Catalan and French. Employment is recorded with Tusquets Editores. Works named in the authority record are Torre Copisa and Hotel Barcelona Princess. Work by Òscar Tusquets is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Saint George's Cross, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.

Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His older sister is the novelist Esther Tusquets (30 August 1936 – 23 July 2012). He studied at the German School of Barcelona, at the Escola de la Llotja, and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where he graduated in 1965. He worked in the studio of Federico Correa and Alfons Milà i Sagnier, and in 1964 he established Studio PER, with Josep Bonet i Bertran, Cristian Cirici i Alomar and Lluís Clotet i Ballús, with whom he collaborated until 1984. His concept of design is a creative task inserted within the corresponding cultural framework. Together with Beatriz de Moura, in 1968 he established Tusquets Editores.

• Architecture: • Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1993-1997 • Restoration and extension of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, 1982 and 1989 (with Carles Díaz) • Urbanism: • Del Liceu al Seminari, 1980-81 • Convent dels Àngels area, 1983 • Avinguda de la Catedral, 1986 • Olympic Village, 1988-92 • Furniture: • rattan chairs • Books: • Más que discutible (1994) • Todo es comparable (1998) • Dios lo ve (2000) • Dalí y otros amigos (2003) • Contra la desnudez (2007)

His recorded languages were Spanish, Catalan, French and English. He married Beatriz de Moura.