Joan Busquets

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Citizenship Spain Awards Erasmus Prize Role Architect		Name Joan Busquets Employer Harvard University


Full Name Joan Busquets Grau Born 1 January 1946 El Prat de Llobregat Occupation architect, urban planner Books Barcelona: The Urban Evolution of a Compact City, Cerda and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality Versus Project

Joan Busquets, Architect and 2011 Erasmus Prize

2017/18 Architecture Lecture Series - Lecture #6 with Joan Busquets

Joan Busquets (born 1946) is an internationally renowned Spanish architect and urban planner. He holds professorships at the Technical University of Catalonia and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His firm BAU - B Arquitectura i Urbanisme SL- is based in Barcelona. He was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, "in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning."

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Life and career

Joan Busquets was born in 1946 in El Prat de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. In 1969 he graduated from the School of Architecture, Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), University of Technology of Catalonia. Busquets was Professor of Town Planning in the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona from 1979 until 2002. Since 2002 he has been a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and holds the chair of Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design. In addition, he has been visiting professor at several universities.

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Joan Busquets headed the Planning Department of the Municipality of Barcelona between 1983 and 1989 and during the preparations for the Olympics in 1992.