MBM arquitectes   Spain   The intention to emphasize its role as a service to society inspired the foundation of the Pompeu Fabra University in the nineties, with an urban character that was uncommon to newly built campus. Installed in renovated buildings of diverse origin, t

MBM arquitectes   Spain   Since its founding in 1954, MBM has produced a wide repertory of work related to housing. The firm has been a leader in Barcelona, due to both the didactic nature of their work at large and the fact that in the course of forty years a good number of

MBM arquitectes   Germany   La unidad residencial Friedrichstadt, proyectada por MBM con motivo del concurso internacional convocado por la IBA/1984 (Internationale Bauausstellung) en 1981 para la edificación del área llamada Kochstrasse/Friedrichstrasse, está situada en pleno

1925-2017 Josep Maria Martorell Codina – the first M of MBM Arquitectes, a key office in modern Spanish architecture –, died in Barcelona, his home city, on 28 November. The son of a prestigious educator who raised him in the Scout Movement, Martorel

One of the three members of MBM, a fundamental practice in 20th-century Spanish architecture, died in Barcelona at 92. The son of a prestigious educator, Josep Maria Martorell was born in the Catalan capital in 1925, attended the Institut Escola – wh

Covadonga Lorenzo   En sus cinco décadas de existencia, el despacho MBM Arquitectes, dirigido por Josep Martorell, Oriol Bohigas y David Mackay, al que posteriormente se incorporaron Oriol Capdevila y Francesc Gual, ha permanecido fiel a un sólido planteamiento teórico

Marta García Carbonero   Law School, Pompeu Fabra University  Through a jury including Josep Emili Hernández Cros, Benedetta Tagliabue and Manuel Gausa, among others, this year Barcelona's City Hall honored the law school that the team of Martorell, Bohigas & Mackay built in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The project for the new headquarters of Catalonia’s leading company brings together economic and symbolic issues discussed in Spain’s general election.