Hostench Architects is a multidisciplinary architecture studio based in Barcelona. With extensive experience in the development of projects both nationally and internationally, the studio stands out particularly in the residential and real estate sector, where it has built a solid and well-established trajectory.

The CEO and principal partner, Oriol Hostench, is a PhD architect and professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Trained between Barcelona and the Netherlands, he worked at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) alongside Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam before establishing his own practice. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Architectural History and Theory, and his approach blends tradition and modernity to create timeless, functional designs. He is currently leading various projects in different parts of the world.

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Awards

  • 2018 Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial for the digital portal “Carta Histórica de Barcelona”.
  • 2017 AJAC Contest for the digital portal “Carta Histórica de Barcelona”.
  • 2016 AJAC Contest for the digital portal “Big Time BCN”.
  • 2005 Contest for the Master Plan for the reconstruction of the historic centre of the city of Beirut, Lebanon.

Publications

  • 2024 PhD Thesis: Hans Scharoun and the organic city. UPC.
  • 2023 Author of cartographic material in “Atles MUHBA d’Història de Barcelona”. Barcelona City Council.
  • 2023 Article in “El llibre de les Fonts. Aigua, clima i societat a la Barcelona del segle XVII”. Barcelona City Council. Editorial Afers.
  • 2022 Article in “Intervención en el Patrimonio Industrial”. Editorial Urban Collectors.
  • 2022 Urban History Guide MUHBA num 32. “Merda Urbana”.
  • 2018 Urban History Guide MUHBA num 25. “Aigua Km 0”. 
  • 2016 “La Carta Històrica de Barcelona”. Article al Butlletí del MUHBA nº 31, page 12.
  • 2014 “Contextualising the City, naturalising Architecture” Essay for the Conference on the Architecture of the City of Marl, Germany.
  • 2014 Coordinator of graphic material and author of several texts in the book “Historia del arte y de la arquitectura moderna (1930 – 1989)” by Fernando Álvarez Prozorovich. UPCGRAU, Barcelona 2014.
  • 2013 “Reader del Model Barcelona”. Book with essays on the different publications on Barcelona carried out as part of the research project: Archivo Crítico Modelo Barcelona.
  • 2012 “Archivo Crítico Modelo Barcelona 1974 – 2004”. Editions in Catalan, Spanish and English. Ajuntament de Barcelona. 2012, Barcelona.
  • 2010 Master’s thesis “Les Formes de Control del Patrimoni Urbà a la R ambla de Poblenou de Barcelona”. UPCfenix. UPCcommons: http://issuu.com/oriolhr/docs/patrimoni_bcn .
  • 2007 “Analysis of works of Modern Architecture”. Historia en Obras: Portal and digital magazine of Architecture: www.historiaenobres.net
  • 2006 “International Urban Ideas Competition for the new multifunctional administrative city in the Republic of Korea”. AAVV. MAAC. Pag. 214.
  • 2006 “El vedado: proyecto y transformación”. Eizaguirre X., Crosas,C. Edicions UPC. Pags. 45-49.
  • 2005 “International ideas competition for the centre of Beirut”, VISIONS magazine, no. 5.

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