Hostench Architects is a multi-purpose architectural practice based in Barcelona. Although it has experience in multiple fields with the development of projects at national and international level, its strong point is residential and real estate projects, as it has extensive experience in this field.
 
Its CEO and main partner is Oriol Hostench: architect and professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). Educated between Barcelona and the Netherlands, he worked at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) together with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, before forming his own firm. He holds a master’s degree in Architectural Theory and his style combines tradition and modernity in his designs. He is currently developing several projects around 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

  • 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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