Staff Profile
Dr Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
- Email: josep.garciafuentes@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5856
- Personal Website: https://www.garciafuentes.eu
- Address: School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
The Quadrangle
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
Dr Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes is an architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape of Newcastle University. He qualified as an architect from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2005), where he also completed a Masters in the Theory and History of Architecture (2007), and a PhD in Architecture (2012).
Josep-Maria was awarded First National Prize of Spain for university graduates in 2006, and has been fellow by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the Society of Architectural Historians, the Caja de Arquitectos, and the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. He is also a Fellow at the London School of Economics, in the Catalan Observatory (UK), and Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He has been previously Assistant Professor and Vice-Dean at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès-Barcelona in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona TECH (Spain, 2010-2013), as well as Visiting Professor at Tongji University (China, 2013) and at Universidad de Concepción (Chile, 2014).
Josep-Maria researches on architecture and the idea of nature, ecology and the environment, experimental preservation, heritage-making processes, and architectural history, and publishes and lectures widely about these topics and his own professional work at invited keynote lectures. He is regularly invited as a lecturer, guest critic and reviewer at postgraduate and undergraduate levels in universities around the world, including Penn Design, Columbia University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cardiff University, the University of Edinburgh, the Politecnico di Torino, and the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
As a practicing architect, Josep-Maria has worked with Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Josep Llinàs, and Robert Brufau, and he also runs his own professional practice on architecture, landscape and ephemeral installations. He is the author of an extension project for the Montserrat Library, the first draft for the new Museum of Montserrat, and other projects in which he confronts his professional, research and teaching practices. He is invited regularly to serve as jury member in national and international, professional and academic competitions. He is also an op-ed contributor to different Spanish and Catalan media, and he is regularly interviewed on media about his research and works.
Grants & Awards
2017 – Visiting Professor – Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
2014 – Research Grant Santander Bank.
2012 – Cum Laude distinction for PhD Dissertation. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH (Spain).
2011 – Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship for the Society of Architectural Historians (USA).
2010 – International PhD Candidate at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Ministry of Education of Spain.
2007-10 – FPU National Scholarship for PhD Students, Ministry of Education of Spain.
2006 – First National Prize of Spain for University Graduates in Architecture (MArch), Ministry of Education of Spain. Awarded by the Minister of Education of Spain for the best academic performance in the country.
2004 – Study Abroad – Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy).
Qualifications
BArch March (2005), Master in Theory and History of Architecture (2007), PhD in Architecture (2012)
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Guidebooks, panoramas, and architecture: Competing national constructions in Catalonia and Spain. In: Martí-López E, ed. The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain. London: Routledge, 2020, pp.150-167.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Deconstructing Gaudí: Entangled Relationships Between Satire and Architectural Criticism. In: Michela Rosso, ed. Laughing at Architecture. Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit. London; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019, pp.91-108.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Survival Through Design. World Architecture / Shijie Jianzhu 2019, 351(9), 100-105.
- Garcia-Fuentes J-M. The construction of modern Montserrat: architecture, politics and ideology. In: Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine, ed. Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.49-69.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Guidebooks, postcards and panoramas: The building of Montserrat through modern mass media. Memory Studies 2016, 9(1), 63-74.
- Garcia-Fuentes J-M. Reinventing and Reshaping Gaudí: From Nation and Religion to Tourism. Architecture, conflict and change in Barcelona's tourist imaginary. In: Maria Gravari-Barbas and Nelson Graburn, ed. Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads: Place, Practice, Media. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.64-78.
- Di Giovine MA, Garcia-Fuentes J-M. Sites of Pilgrimage, Sites of Heritage: An Exploratory Introduction. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 2016, 5(1/2), 1-23.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. A mountainous history of modern architecture?. Architectural Research Quarterly 2015, 19(2), 101-106.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter: Architecture, Politics and Ideology. In: Mager, T, ed. Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015, pp.35-54.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Deconstructing Gaudí: Entangled relations between satire and architectural criticism. In: Association of Art Historians, AAH 2015. 2015, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. L’interpretazione creativa del passato: l’invenzione del ‘Barri Gòtic’ di Barcellona. In: di D. Cutolo; S. Pace, ed. La scoperta della città antica. Esperienza e conoscenza del centro storico nell’Europa del Novecento. Macerata, Italy: Quodlibet, 2015. In Press.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM, Guàrdia-Bassols M, Oyón-Bañales JL. Reinventing Edible Identities: Catalan Cuisine and Barcelona's Market Halls. In: Brulotte, R; Di Giovine, M, ed. Edible Identities: Exploring Food as Cultural Heritage. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp.159-174.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Σχεδιάζοντας, διαστασιολογώντας και κατασκευάζοντας ένα ‘κρουασάν’. Για τα σχέδια και την αρχιτεκτονική του Enric Miralles. [Drawing, dimensioning and building a croissant. On the drawings and the architecture of Enric Miralles]. In: Claudio Conenna and Κυριακή Τσουκαλά, ed. Enric Miralles, Αρχιτεκτων [Enric Miralles, Architect]. Thessaloniki, Greece: Epikentro, 2014, pp.134-155.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. A Nation of Monasteries: The Legeacy of Victor Balaguer in the Spanish Conception of National Monuments. Future Anterior 2013, 10(1), 40-51.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Ecos y Resonancias: Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Arquitectura Viva 2013, 151, 65.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Víctor Balaguer, Montserrat i la construcció de Catalunya i Espanya. Sobre el caràcter i la dimensió universal del pensament balaguerià. Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer 2013, 6, 11-24.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. El milagro de Cataluña. DC Papers: Revista de Critica y Teoria de la Arquitectura 2012, 24, 120-124.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM, Usandizaga M. Architectural Design of Markets 2005-2010. Barcelona, Spain: Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH, 2011.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM. Book review: The Heritage-scape: Tourism, UNESCO and World Heritage. Cultural Geographies 2011, 18(3), 427-427.
- Garcia-Fuentes JM, Guàrdia M. Montjuïc: A Stage-Set for Memory. Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme 2011, 263, 55-57.