Josep Acebillo participating in the “Energy” BIArch Seminar
Josep Anton Acebillo was born in Huesca, in north-eastern Spain, and received a degree in architecture from the ETSAB the School of Architecture in 1974. He currently teaches at the Architecture Academy at the Università della Svizzera italiana and is a partner at AuS Architecture and Urban Systems in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Acebillo is one of the key figures in the recent history of urban planning in Barcelona: he was director of Urban Projects for the city between 1981 and 1987, a period that marks the begging of the deep urban transformation experienced by the city in the last decades of the twentieth century. Acebillo led the Urban Development Insititute of the City of Barcelona between 1988 and 1994 and was responsible for the large-scale urban development projects carried out in the frame of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Port Olimpic, Barcelona
His contribution to urban change in Barcelona earned him the Honorific Medal awarded by the city in 1992, as well as a Prince of Wales in urban design prize, awarded to him in 1990 by Harvard University. In 1994 he became CEO of Barcelona Regional, a think tank dedicated to the development of strategic urban projects and infrastructures for the city. In 1998 Acebillo was appointed “Commissioner of Infrastructures and Urban Planning” of Barcelona, and he became the city’s Chief Architect briefly after that. In 1999 he was named honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Barcelona in Progress exhibition, organized by Barcelona Regional
Josep Acebillo is a member of the BIArch Board of Directors, and will be teaching Territorial & Urban Studies in the first edition of the MBIArch program. Focusing on a “post-crisis” context of accute socio-economic and environmental tensions associated with rapid urbanization, Acebillo will lead students to concentrate on the observation and analysis of the increasingly socio-technical nature of cities, exploring the impact of networks on territorial phenomena.
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