Òscar Tusquets

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tusquets and the second or maternal family name is Blanca.

Oscar Tusquets Blanca, (born 14 June 1941 in Barcelona) is a Spanish architect.

Biography

Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His old sister（1936.08.30-2012.07.23） is the novelist Esther Tusquets.

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,^[1] 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.

Selected works

Architecture

• Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1993-1997^[2]
• Restoration and extension of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, 1982 and 1989 (with Carles Díaz)^[3]

Urbanism

• Del Liceu al Seminari, 1980-81
• Convent dels Àngels area, 1983
• Avinguda de la Catedral, 1986
• Olympic Village, 1988-92

Furniture

• rattan chairs^[4]

Books

• Más que discutible (1994)
• Todo es comparable (1998)
• Dios lo ve (2000)
• Dalí y otros amigos (2003)
• Contra la desnudez (2007)

Honors

• 1988: Premio Nacional de Diseño (with Enric Satué)^[5]
• 1987: Creu de Sant Jordi^[6]

References

1. Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2005). Design of the 20th Century (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. p. 697. ISBN 9783822840788. OCLC 809539744.
2. Navarro, A. R. Montero / N. (2018-07-15). "Dos auditorios: un edificio en Gran Canaria, una escultura en Tenerife". La Provincia - Diario de Las Palmas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-17.
3. Josep M. Carandell, Ricard Pla, and Pere Vivas, The Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona: Triangle Postals SL, ISBN 9788484782100 (2006).
4. "Óscar Tusquets diseña en rattan la silla Fontal para Expormim". Interioresminimalistas.com (in Spanish). 26 April 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
5. "Premios Nacionales de Diseño 1988" (PDF). Idi.mineco.gob.es (in Spanish). 1988. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
6. DECRET 399/1987, de 3 de desembre, de concessió de les Creus de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya