Octavio MESTRE

Arch. Octavio Mestre (Spain/Barcelona) -  Architect by the Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona(1985). He founded an architectural practice in Barcelona – Octavio Mestre Arquitectos (1990). Professor in twenty European and American universities. Co-director of the digital magazine t18. His works include numerous single-family homes, apartment complexes, shopping centers like Illa Diagonal, Pedralbes Centre and Grand Jonquera, Aresa Clinic and, among his office buildings, the Department of Employment, the rehabilitation of Diagonal Minerva, the headquarters of Prosegur, Inmobiliaria Colonial, Diagonal No.409, Mutua Madrileña in Barcelona and Madrid. His latest projects are the building Travesera-Amigó and the CERN headquarters. His work is summed up in eleven monographs.