Numerary Member
Technological Sciences: Dr. in Architecture
Date of admittance: 26/10/2017
Admission Speech: Barcelona, Galería Urbana
Juan Trias de Bes (Barcelona, 1964) is an architect from the School of Architecture of Barcelona, 1991. He opened his professional studio TDB ARQUITECTURA in 1992, in Barcelona, where he maintains the activity of practicing the profession in the field of the building and urbanism.
He is the author of Institutional works, such as the Sarriá University Residence, the Headquarters of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, the headquarters of the Grífols laboratories, or the ESADE University in the Campus of Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona).
In the field of rehabilitation and restoration of buildings, among other works, it accredits interventions such as The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, in the Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona (Post-war Eclecticism), the Convention Center and the institutional headquarters of the ESADE University in the Campus de Barcelona (Functionalism of the ’70s), or the “Casa Burés” Building, intended for collective housing in the Eixample Cerdà Primigenio de Barcelona (Modernism 1900-1905).
In the field of research, he is a member of the Laboratory for Technological Innovation in Industrialized and Sustainable Building (LITEIS) of the International University of Catalonia, where he heads the Research Department “Cátedra hARQware” oriented to the innovation and development of new Technologies of the Information and Communication (ICT) related to architecture.
In the field of Teaching, he is responsible for the Projects area of the School of Architecture (UIC bcn), in which since 2002 he teaches courses for Final Degree Projects and Degree Projects. He has been a visiting professor in several international courses and conferences as in the ITESM program in Barcelona for students from Canada, the United States and Mexico, in the Final Projects project court at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture in Bucharest, in the program of Master of the White Chair of the ETSAB, the School of Architecture of the University of Santiago de Chile, the European Institute of Design in Barcelona, the School of Architecture of Granada, and the Doctoral Thesis in the Faculty of Biology from Barcelona..
In the field of dissemination and knowledge, in 2013 he obtained the qualification “Cum laude” for his Doctoral Thesis, under the title “ARQUITECTURAS MATÉRICAS” by the Department of “Composition and Architectural Theory” of the ETSAB, dedicated to investigate the relationship between Matter and Form. He has also been a speaker at various architecture seminars and is the author of several articles in specialized publications on architectural thought, project theory and own work.
He has recently been distinguished as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Board of the Temple of the Sagrada Familia.
In 2016 he was twice awarded the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU XIII) in the research and dissemination modalities.
EDIFICATION
HEADQUARTERS MEDICAL SCIENCE ACADEMY OF CATALONIA AND BALEARICS
ESADE UNIVERSITY SANT CUGAT CAMPUS
ESADE UNIVERSITY IN BARCELONA
NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR GRIFOLS LABORATORIES
UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE SARRIÀ
MANDARIN ORIENTAL BARCELONA
NATURA BISSÉ CORPORATE AND FACTORY HEADQUARTERS
OFFICE BUILDING NEXT TO THE B-30
HOTEL CANYON RANCH IN THE BODRUM PENINSULA, TURKEY
HOTEL RONDA SANT ANTONI
REHABILITATION MODERNIST BUILDING CASA BURÉS
HOUSING AT EL PASEO DE REINA ELISENDA DE MONTCADA
HOUSES IN MIRET I SANS STREET
HOUSING IN THE IMMACULATE STREET
HOUSING IN THE DALT ROUND
REHABILITATION INDUSTRIAL BUILDING
CASA CALLS
HOUSING BETWEEN MEDIANERAS
PALLARS HOUSES
BELLCAIRE D’EMPORDÀ
CASA FCK
OFFICE TOWER IN THE METROPOLITAN CITY
CENTER CONVENTIONS FOR THE MEDICAL SCIENCE ACADEMY
RESIDENTIAL ASSEMBLY WITH BUILDING IN HEIGHT “WALDEN II”
CASA CDS
COMPETITIONS
CENTER OF SURGICAL INVESTIGATION
HOSPITAL SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ
CHILE LIBRARY
SCHOOL OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY IN BREGENZ
CHILDREN’S SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND SECONDARY IN BILBAO
CASTELL PERALADA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ITER
RINGLIGHTS
ARTABRIA (MUSEUM)
URBAN PLANNING AND PLANNING
MASTERPLAN OF THE CITY OF LAS LANGUAS
RESIDENTIAL PLANNING FUSAGASUGÁ
PUERTO-CITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
MASTERPLAN FOR THE CITY METROPOLITANA BCN
L’ILLA DE L’AIGUA
ORDINATION OF THE GROUP DENOMINATED “THE EDGE”.
LA CALERA RESIDENTIAL PLANNING
PROPOSAL FOR ORDINATION OF THE URBAN FRONT OF PONT REIXAT.
PROJECT OF URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES
SEA PORT
GENERAL PLAN OF URBAN ORDINATION OF SEGOVIA
NEW LISBON
PUERTO-CITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
MASTERPLAN IN RABAT
KAPLANKAYA-HOTEL AND RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX