Oriol Bohigas - MBM Arquitectes

MBM Arquitectes is a Spanish architecture and urban planning studio based in Barcelona, founded in 1951 by Spanish architects Oriol Bohigas (1925) and Josep Martorell Codina (1925), it was expanded in 1961 with the addition of British architect David Mackay (1933-2014), forming the team that made MBM famous and with which the studio has worked for more than half a century in Spain and other European countries. Of the founding members, Bohigas boasts a long theoretical career, teaching (at the School of Architecture in Barcelona since 1964, becoming director in 1971) and authoring numerous books and essays. When the studio was formed, Bohigas and Martorell’s primary concern was “opposition to Frankist architecture” in vogue in the country at the time: to detach themselves from this style, the studio used a number of key figures in Italian architecture as their models, ....

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