Josep Bohigas

Architecture and Urban planning

Activism, Participation, Art, Strategic Planning, Design, Housing, transdisciplinar practice, Communication, Social Urbanism

Bohigas (Barcelona, Spain) is an architect from the ETSAB (UPC) with master studies at Columbia University and UPF. He was the general manager of the Urban Development Agency, Barcelona Regional, from 2016 to 2023 and the Agency of Urban Ecology from 2019 to 2022. He is an associate professor at the ETSAB, co-director of the Master degree in Lighting Design at the UPC Foundation. He was co-director of the BOPBAA Architecture studio from 1991 to 2015, winning various architectural competitions including the extension to the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, the Housing block in the Forum area, and the El Molino theatre in Barcelona, and receiving awards for professional recognition including FAD awards (1998, 2000, 2007) and City of Barcelona awards (2007, 2014, 2016). Since 2003 has directed and curated several cultural activism programs which have highlighted new solutions to the housing problem: Barraca Barcelona 2003, APTM 2005, Eme3:Collapse 2009, Piso Piloto 2015, and Arquitectes de Capçalera 2014-2024.