Enric Massip

Dr. Architect by ETSAB-UPC. Professor at the Architectural Design Department-UPC. Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology with a Monbushō grant from the Japanese Government, worked in the office of Kazuo Shinohara. Visiting professor at different universities, he has given lectures and participated in seminars in several cities around the world. His theoretical work has been widely published in journals and books. Among others: Experimental Dwellings, 1971-1994 (Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 1996), Architecture on the Horizon (London: RIBA, 1996), Concealed Complexities (Tokyo: Toto, 1999), Diagonal ZeroZero (Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2011) and Kazuo Shinohara-Casas/Houses (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2011). He was co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of WAM, the first online magazine devoted to architecture.

In 1990 he founded EMBA_ESTUDI MASSIP-BOSCH ARCHITECTS with which he has won multiple awards and competitions, working on different project scales and in different urban and social contexts. His works include the Cluj-Napoca Children Hospital, Romania (awarded Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2021 Human-conscious Prize); Torre Telefónica Diagonal ZeroZero, Barcelona (awarded LEAF Awards Best Office Building 2011); Saló Sagrada Família urban project, Barcelona; the Remodeling of Place République, Leucate (France, awarded Mediterranean Public Space Prize 2009); or the TJ Headquarters and Logistics Center, Moscow (Russia). EMBA’s work has been exhibited at different international venues, including Venice Biennale, Museo d’Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna-Pescara, COAC Barcelona, Santiago de Chile Biennale, and Bucharest Biennale. A monograph of selected EMBA’s works EMBA ARCHITECTURE 2005-2015 has been published in the prestigious collection TC Cuadernos.